Firefox vs. IE: innerHTML handling

Question

After hours of debugging, it appears to me that in FireFox, the innerHTML of a DOM reflects what is actually in the markup, but in IE, the innerHTML reflects what\'s in the

Answer 1

I agree with Pat. At this point in the game, writing your own code to deal with cross-browser compatibility given the available Javascript frameworks doesn't make a lot of sense. There's a framework for nearly any taste (some really quite tiny) and they've focused on really abstracting out all of the differences between the browsers. They're doing WAY more testing of it than you're likely to.

Something like jQuery or Yahoo's YUI (think how many people hit the Yahoo Javascript in a day and the variety of browsers) is just way more road-tested than any snippet you or I come up with.