Well, both IE and Mozilla basically do DOM the same way... it's just I've found some issues with IE when you actually want to preserve the data that you clone/move around the DOM... it's a little annoying.

When you clone a node, then its a clone... if you want/need to change any attributes then you have to be explicit about it. It is the same in IE.

And I'd say the 3 ways to create any dynamic html:
1. InnerHTML.
2. Deep Clone Node from Template.
3. Build DOM explicitly.

I use all 3... as I said, sometimes you don't care what happens to the DOM structure... so innerHTML is fine. Sometimes you want to create a complex html DOM tree, in which case it makes much more sense to use a template... and sometimes you just want to add a few nodes here and there...

Goro.. if you try Firefox + Venkman to build your apps, then you'd never go back to IE! Its miles ahead of windows script debugger.