Exactly, Josh!

contextPath is what I was after - Kevin already gave it away recently and I forgot to close the issue.

Not to drag jQuery around (I mean, to reduce the package size) and in order to get the latest version of jQuery, I use a CDN distributed copy via the <script> tag, hence my difficulties...

Now if the .view.xml file could take a web reference to jQuery that would be awesome, but I don't believe, that's the case, I think, I tried that already...