#domscripting

"There are times when using a JavaScript library is called for. ... However, there are other times when you don’t need all that."

"Apparently if you try to remove/destroy/trash a FORM dom node in IE6, it won’t delete it, instead creating a bizarre orphaned node stuck sucking up memory until the browser window is refreshed."

"Steven Levithan, of RegexPal, ran into some performance issues with innerHTML due to the fact that "every keydown event potentially triggers the destruction and creation of thousands of elements" so he started to look into it."

"Today’s work feels good. Not only should it be really, really clear how to use the above code, all the code behind it is much more cleanly designed, and uses YUI to good advantage. It’s been a good day."

"For those of us just building a bog standard JavaScript application without one of these fancy libraries, it’s worth taking a look at how event delegation works in the real world."

"What happens when we call something using setTimeout with a delay of 0 is that the JavaScript engine notices that it’s busy (with whatever task called setTimeout) and queues the setTimeout code for execution immediately after the current call stack clo

"Hello I am a document fragment"

"It's always seemed a bit wrong and dirty to use innerHTML to manipulate or add content to a page."

"If you move your mouse over one of the four web-services buttons at the bottom of this page, a balloon pops up showing you whatever is new for that particular web-service."