AJAX Libraries - Continuous Forms

[eluser]slowgary[/eluser]
Interesting article. The += wasn't the big speed killer of the article, it was appending a new node to a new node and then appending them both to an existing node VS appending a whole strong of markup to an existing node. It makes sense though as the first method is creating separate objects. Either way, in your case it won't play a big role as you're not doing any of it 1000 times inside a loop.

What are you trying to do? Animate the addition of elements too? Sheesh. ;-)

Rather than call the hide() method on the newly appended item, I'd just specify display: none for .item in your CSS, that way every item is hidden by default. Then you can call show() or fadeIn().

How does that work so far? Do you have it live anywhere?