On 3/13/06, Jay Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have also read (no personal first hand knowledge) that there can be > issues between using DOM/DHTML scripts and XHTML. I don't know what > these issues are but why invite trouble.
This arises from non-DOM methods, which are often much simpler to implement (and faster in terms of performance), such as innerHTML [1] (and document.write, but we won't go there). I *think* this is because innerHTML/outerHTML/document.write and their kin leave the XML tree alone -- any elements in the inserted content _aren't_ created as elements, and hence cannot be manipulated at all. (That aside, I don't really see anything wrong with this [innerHTML] -- we must remember that XMLHttpRequest object is also proprietary!) Obviously if you do this with an XML document then you wind up with un-parsed structure (it renders, but it's not part of the tree), which can mean problems. Apparently Firefox 1.5 copes okay with this, somehow. Josh 1.http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/innerhtml.html ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
