Not jQuery specific, but ran into a cross browser issue today with the following snippet:
$('<span/>',{class: 'check', text: 'Checking'}).insertAfter('#checker');
This will work fine in Firefox, but in Safari it throws a parse error. Evidently ‘class’ is a reserved word in webkit. The solution is to quote it:
$('<span/>',{'class': 'check', text: 'Checking'}).insertAfter('#checker');
The documentation even shows an example of this exact thing, but doesn’t point it out explicitly.
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John Herren is a developer and technical consultant with focus on web applications. He currently serves as Director of Development for Primetime US, the company behind the hit movie and book The Secet. John was formerly staff writer and developer community evangelist for Zend Technologies. Along with founding neat experiments like TagCloud.com, John is an active member in the mashup community, working with API providers and speaking at conferences. He is a published author of Linux certification study material. John enjoys using open source software like PHP and Ruby on Rails to bend the web into exciting new chimeras of hyperlinked goodness.
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