>  Here is an interesting blog post that I came across:

> http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-than-innerhtml

> The synopsis basically is that one can gain dramatic speed improvements on
> setting innerHTML when removing items that are going to be overwritten using
> DOM methods before inserting stuff via innerHTML.

> I could see how this would be a need addition to jQuery.

> -- Felix PS: If you like regex make sure to subscribe to this guys blog,
> he has some mad skills going on.
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>  Here is an interesting blog post that I came across:

> http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-than-innerhtml

>  The synopsis basically is that one can gain dramatic speed improvements on
> setting innerHTML when removing items that are going to be overwritten using
> DOM methods before inserting stuff via innerHTML.

>  I could see how this would be a need addition to jQuery.

>  -- Felix
> PS: If you like regex make sure to subscribe to this guys blog, he has some
> mad skills going on.
>  --------------------------
>  My Blog: http://www.thinkingphp.org
>  My Business: http://www.fg-webdesign.de

> Although, there's a lot of other issues at play inside .append() in
> order to make it work cross browser, so those innerHTML benefits have
> probably be nullified in the meantime.

> --John

> On 9/12/07, Felix Geisendörfer <haimu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> >  Here is an interesting blog post that I came across:

> >http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-than-innerhtml

> >  The synopsis basically is that one can gain dramatic speed improvements on
> > setting innerHTML when removing items that are going to be overwritten using
> > DOM methods before inserting stuff via innerHTML.

> >  I could see how this would be a need addition to jQuery.

> >  -- Felix
> > PS: If you like regex make sure to subscribe to this guys blog, he has some
> > mad skills going on.
> >  --------------------------
> >  My Blog:http://www.thinkingphp.org
> >  My Business:http://www.fg-webdesign.de

> John, I slapped this modified version of my test page together in a
> couple minutes:

> http://stevenlevithan.com/demo/replaceHtml_jQuery.html

> jQuery.html() seems to perform pretty terribly, to be honest. The
> 15,000 element "destroy & create" test in IE7, for example, is over
> 500 times slower than replaceHtml (around 104141ms vs. 203ms). Am I
> doing something wrong? (I've never used jQuery before, so I apologize
> if I'm making some stupid mistake.)

> --Steven Levithan

> On Sep 12, 3:16 pm, "John Resig" <jere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You're in luck! jQuery already pre-empties an element inside .html().
> > Calling .html() actually does:
> >   .empty().append("html string");

> > Although, there's a lot of other issues at play inside .append() in
> > order to make it work cross browser, so those innerHTML benefits have
> > probably be nullified in the meantime.

> > --John

> > On 9/12/07, Felix Geisendörfer <haimu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > >  Here is an interesting blog post that I came across:

> > >http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-than-innerhtml

> > >  The synopsis basically is that one can gain dramatic speed
> improvements on
> > > setting innerHTML when removing items that are going to be overwritten
> using
> > > DOM methods before inserting stuff via innerHTML.

> > >  I could see how this would be a need addition to jQuery.

> > >  -- Felix
> > > PS: If you like regex make sure to subscribe to this guys blog, he has
> some
> > > mad skills going on.
> > >  --------------------------
> > >  My Blog:http://www.thinkingphp.org
> > >  My Business:http://www.fg-webdesign.de