IE JS/DOM performance degradation weirdness — OZONE Asylum, home of the Mad Scientists

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I just mean that innerHTML makes for "hacks". As I said, I used it a lot because I am comfortable with quirky code, but writing reusable code using innerHTML? The next geek will have to be an Asylumnite to even try and read your code. All html objects can be treated as objects through DOM methods like createChildNode, appendChild, setAttribute, getAttribute, and these are the methods that make for clean content rewrite. In school, we are strongly encouraged to avoid hacks and foster readability/reusability: sparing the next code monkey the hassle of reversing my code and reading it has started to matter. This said, plain text processing through innerHTML still is very fast. And non-standard, as bit pointed out. And ugly. Loading...
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