Some of the advice is just plain wrong depending on your target platform. For example, on my iPad, iPhone 3G (not 3GS), and Safari 5.0 (6533.16)/Mac, using cre

Some of the advice is just plain wrong depending on your target platform. For example, on my iPad, iPhone 3G (not 3GS), and Safari 5.0 (6533.16)/Mac, using createElement/appendChild is consistently faster than using innerHTML. In Chrome 5.0.375.70/Mac, they are the same speed. In Firefox 3.6.3/Mac, naive createElement is slower, but using a DocumentFragment makes it as fast as innerHTML. My test case: http://dqd.com/~mayoff/timeDom.html http://dqd.com/~mayoff/timeDom.html