DOM Tips

I came across this XML Matters article today: Beyond the DOM by Dethe Elza. For the most part if you’re a seasoned web developer with years of experience with the DOM there’s probably nothing new here for you, but I found a couple handy things that I’ll be adding to my JS libraries that I include with my projects:

• A JavaScript function that eases creation of DOM elements (link)
• Some mapping and filter functions (note that Mozilla Firefox natively supports very similar functionality in their JavaScript implementation which should improve speed) (link)