This may be hijacking the thread, so I'll keep it brief. i agree that
innerHTML is useful, and it is a de-facto standard (like AJAX). I also agree
that whatwg's work is much closer to reality than w3g's, and like I said,
I'm not a fanatic standardista. My point is that it's harder to debug
complicated strings than language constructs, since the language will tell
you there's a syntax error right away. As in
$("<div class='first'><div><div>"+"<span
style='color:"+getColor()+"'></span></div></div>");
It would take me forever to find that I missed a closing div, and keeping
track of all the quotes is well-nigh impossible. To use my function,
$.dom('div', {Class: 'first'}, ['div',{},['div',{},['span', {style: {color:
getColor()}}]]])
and if I screw up a parenthesis or brace, Firebug will tell me right away.
For simple things ($("<span>Hello</span>") I'll use innerHTML, and certainly
if someone else is taking responsibility for generating the string (as in
AJAX), there's nothing easier than innerHTML.
Danny
Sam Collett wrote:
>
> I may not be a guru (but have been using it for a long time), but
> while jQuery does use innerHTML, it does in a way to work around
> limitations in the browsers. Without it, I don't think you would be
> able to create select options or table cells/rows via the $("<html>")
> method.
>
> All of the supported browsers recognise innerHTML and I can't see it
> going away any time soon, or any new browser shipping without support
> for it as so many sites rely on it to work. Much like how XHTML strict
> (served with correct content type) will likely never see widespread
> adoption. I think HTML 5 (http://blog.whatwg.org/faq/) is more likely
> to take off IF Internet Explorer 8 adopts it (as it simply expands on
> what people use now, and is not a complete break from HTML like XHTML
> 2 is), but as Microsoft are pushing XAML that may not happen.
>
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