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A great and unfairly ignored framework. I love it for its simplicity and speed. Do everything with HTML and CSS and use Knockout to bind that to your data, and then just use this for AJAX and other utilities:

http://minifiedjs.com

Now you have a full stack in like 50k.

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Minified does sound interesting, especially in term of size, but what about the performance in comparison to jQuery? Also, in term of browser support, the range of browsers officially supported is quite small (plenty of mobile browsers/platforms missing for example).

In my experience it works on just about any modern browser. It's just that it's a smaller project and hasn't been rigorously tested on all of them.

I always check my web work on as many browsers as possible anyway, since quirks abound at all levels of the stack.

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