[Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

[Roberto Antonio Ferreira de Almeida]

Ian Bicking wrote:
> Incidentally, the Rails people felt pretty strongly that innerHTML was 
> the way to go, because DOM manipulation is hard to maintain, and 
> innerHTML is very consistent across browsers.

I had problems with innerHTML in pages served as application/xhtml+xml 
-- it doesn't work. My solution was to write a function that converts 
HTML to Javascript code to manipulate the DOM:

   http://dealmeida.net/en/Programming/Python/from_xhtml_to_dom.html

I'm not sure how well it works in IE, though.

Roberto