I'm not sure how this relates to TestSwarm but could you provide some
more information about the cross-browser nature of .text? Preferably
with proof that it works in all the browsers that jQuery supports.
If so then I don't think I'll have a problem switching to it.
--John
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Andrea Giammarchi
<andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I know there is nothing about it in the W3C specs but AFAIK the text
> property seems to be a de-facto standard as innerHTML is.
> Since jQuery is using test swarm I wonder if it could be cleaned/speed up a
> little bit avoiding the appendChild with a document.createTextNode and using
> just text property.
>
> This will make jQuery initialization a bit faster, without a try catch plus
> other specific operations in the support.js file and the globalEval smaller.
>
> // Evalulates a script in a global context
> globalEval: function( data ) {
> if ( data && rnotwhite.test(data) ) {
> // Inspired by code by Andrea Giammarchi
> //
> http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2007/08/global-scope-evaluation-and-dom.html
> var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] ||
> document.documentElement,
> script = document.createElement("script");
>
> script.type = "text/javascript";
> script.text = data;
>
> // Use insertBefore instead of appendChild to
> circumvent an IE6 bug.
> // This arises when a base node is used (#2709).
> head.insertBefore( script, head.firstChild );
> head.removeChild( script );
> }
> },
>
> Regards
>
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