Tag Archives: Javascript

jQuery Advantages

  • Easy to use and learn.
  • Easily expandable.
  • Cross-browser support (IE 6.0+, FF 1.5+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+)
  • Easy to use for DOM manipulation and traversal.
  • Large pool of built in methods.
  • AJAX Capabilities.
  • Methods for changing or applying CSS, creating animations.
  • Event detection and handling.
  • Tons of plug-ins for all kind of needs.

JavaScript innerHTML Disadvantages

  • Content is replaced everywhere
  • We cannot use like “appending to innerHTML”
  • Even if you use +=like “innerHTML = innerHTML + ‘html’” still the old content is replaced by html
  • The entire innerHTML content is re-parsed and build into elements, therefore its much slower
  • The innerHTML does not provide validation and therefore we can potentially insert valid and broken HTML in the document and break it