On 14 Sep 2006, at 20:46, Paul Novitski wrote: > > Not that I know of. I haven't ever looked under the hood at a > browser's DOM-parsing code so I can't say for sure, but if there is > a difference I'm sure it can be measured in microseconds or > milliseconds and therefore isn't significant for us big, slow- > moving humans. > For the curious, Dave Hyatt (who used to work on Netscape/Mozilla, and now works on Safari) has an in-depth look at this topic on his old Surfin' Safari blog: <http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2005_05.html#007507> Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/