DUduncans·Dec 18, 2012
This is a little bit silly. I agree if you're not beholden to support old versions of IE then there may be some overhead in full jQuery, so it's worth pointing out there some lightweight alternatives that have a similar API, e.g.
* http://zeptojs.com/
* https://github.com/mythz/jquip
In JQuery Core 1.9 Upgrade Guide