Some, such as Prototype.js, are quite a bit smaller.

Without qualifying that statement to discuss UI libs or something, it’s not right; Prototype is almost exactly twice as big as jQuery. And FWIW Prototype is near the end of the list I’d recommend due to the richness of other kits and its history of screwing up built-ins and not playing well with other kits.

~/>wget "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min
+.js"
~/>wget "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.7.2.0/protot
+ype.js"

~/>sl prototype.js jquery.min.js
-rw-rw-r--  1 moo  staff   95786 May 12 19:26 jquery.min.js
-rw-rw-r--  1 moo  staff  197777 Apr 23 01:11 prototype.js
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