David - In jQuery 1.4 we actually do straight .innerHTML = html when we can (namely in the case where particular elements are attempting to be injected into problematic elements - like options into select).
--John On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:39 PM, David Lee <davidomu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Dave, > > Thanks for the response! > > I guess my bottom-line point is that html(newHTML) should behave like > innerHTML = newHTML, but that it doesn't. It doesn't matter what the > browser should do, but what in fact it does do. In my scenario, I'm > using HTML5 elements that work if they have been created once in the > document using createElement(). Setting innerHTML works with my > particular fragment of HTML5; html() does not. > > Could you also answer why html(newHTML) isn't just defined to be > innerHTML = newHTML? John mentioned that the javascript would be re- > executed if you do that, but I can't imagine why that would happen. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
