I always thought there was a better way to access the dom. This is a tool that allows you to use extremely simple syntax to access dom elements. It makes an object with the name of your choice (I chose "$") that contains a reference to all elements that have an id.
example:
<script> $.foo.innerHTML = "Hello world" </script>
You can even choose to use an object that already exists (I chose "document" because it makes sense)
document.foo.innerHTML = "Hello world"
If you want to live dangerously, you can even make everything global!
foo.innerHTML = "Hello world"
OK, error found: we forgot to instantiate the object. Corrected function:
function(a,d,i){this[a]={};for(i in d=document.getElementsByTagName('*'))if(d[i].id)this[a][d[i].id]=d[i]}
Incidentially, testing in a jquery-Environment would have made this example run without failure.