Found a problem with Opera’s XML/DOM support. Seems that they don’t support appendChild() if the document is created with an “” (empty) QualifiedName.
document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
This only seems to be a problem if you try to append to such a document. Opera 8.x (and prior?) requires you to create the document with a QualifiedName like:
document.implementation.createDocument("","foo",null);
This way appendChild will work as expected. Of course this works fine in Firefox and IE. It also apprears to be fixed in the upcoming 9.0 release of Opera.
Kevin Henrikson leads engineering for Microsoft Outlook iOS/Android. Previously, he co-founded Acompli and ran engineering prior to an acquisition by Microsoft in 2014 for $200M. Before Acompli, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm for early stage technology companies.
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