Comment by tshadwell

Or, you know, use the Javascript DOM APIs? They're really not at all that bad.

  var d = document.createElement("div");
  d.className = "new";
  d.innerHTML = "<p>Hi Sprint</p>";

Skimming through the code I'm not sure the authors really grok Javascript anyway, which might explain why they need a (pretty thin) custom API for the standard APIs. toArray should be simply this:

function toArray(o) { return Array.prototype.slice.call(o) }

Instead it's:

  var toArray = function(obj) {
    var arr = []
    var i = obj.length
    while (i--) {
      arr[i] = obj[i]
    }
    return arr
  }

This is just silly:

    prepend: function() {
      insertHTML.call(this, "afterbegin", arguments)
      return this
    },

  var insertHTML = function(position, args) {
    var argsLen = args.length
    var contents = args

[...]

  var domMethods = {
    afterbegin: function(el) {
      this.insertBefore(el, this.firstChild)
    },

Perhaps this isn't so constructive and I should fork the library and annotate every method with its vanilla Javascript equivalent. I'm sure this post is non-constructive in some respects but I like Javascript, I just wish people would learn how to work with the language it instead of replacing the API wholesale.