$('<v:curve/>', {'from' : '50px,50px', 'to' : '100px,100px'})

[shenkong]

throw an error! instead of $('body').append($('<v:curve/>').attr({'from' : '50px,50px', 'to' : '100px,100px'})); it run well.

[dmethvin]

If the browser's native innerHTML doesn't like '<v:curve/>' then jQuery's $() won't like it either.

 http://api.jquery.com/jQuery/#jQuery2

[dmethvin]

Acutally, let me correct that, the problem here is that ('<v:curve/>') tries to use the shorthand document.createElement approach to create the element which won't work there. I wonder if the regexp could be changed to push this into the innerHTML case so it would work.

[snover]

It could, but let’s not, OK? Maybe this gets resolved on its own later with some other XML-compatibility work, but we should not go out of our way to allow people to generate VML since it is hardly cross-browser.

[anonymous]

Tools are known as a tool because it can help us finish the task.