[jQuery] Re: Using append() - each element or string of HTML?

2009-09-19 Thread Karl Swedberg
One interesting side note is that, according to John Resig's presentation on recent changes to jQuery internals (at last weekend's jQuery conference): for (var i=0; i 250; i++) { $('lisome thing/li').attr('id', 'foo' + i).appendTo('ul'); } ... is now faster than this: for (var i=0; i

[jQuery] Re: Using append() - each element or string of HTML?

2009-09-18 Thread Michael Geary
You will get the fastest load time by building an HTML string and inserting it. In a test case I wrote for the jQuery Cookbook, I got a *60X* faster load time with a 1000-row table by using an HTML string instead of building up the table with jQuery's DOM functions. You won't see that dramatic an