[nobleach]

Not to travel too far off the main topic, but I use this exact fact to demonstrate to new developers why I prefer a developer that looks things up instead of relying on what "everyone knows". When Jeremy Keith's DOM Scripting book was written many years ago, it claimed that DOM methods were much slower than innerHtml. And that was true. If we all just took that as gospel, we'd be WAY off base.

So I'll take the dev that looks things up, as there's much more possibility they're operating on more up to date information.

Consequently, this is why I also tell people to stop repeating "this is a best practice" a year or so after something is discovered. It's a "common practice". You don't have enough info to know if it's truly "best".