[BinaryIdiot]

There is a lot of uses of innerHTML in this code which causes browser reflow; might get better performance creating all of the HTML components via document.createElement() and using document.createTextNode() for all text within a tag itself.

But yeah cherry-picking may not be the most constructive thing however you do have good points. The DOM API is kinda funky (I wish it did some things like chaining) but it's very simple. Half the times I write a very thin wrapper around it JUST to provide some chaining.

[sanderjd]

See, that's why I end up using these libraries. If I found myself doing the three statements for creating a div in your parent's comment, I'd pull that out into a function that does it, then I'd start finding other things to pull out as well, then I'd think "surely somebody has made a library that has these things pulled out nicely", and I'd find one of these libraries. Since I know that would happen, I just start with a library from the beginning.

But I suppose I'd love one that is thinner, like your "very thin wrapper", if anybody has pointers.