When to use document.implementation.createHTMLDocument?

Question

What are some use cases and is it deprecated? As I found out at http://groups.google.com/group/envjs/browse_thread/thread/6c22d0f959666009/c389fc11537f2a97 that it\'s \"non-

Answer 1

I always use this because it doesn't make requests to images, execute scripts or affect styling:

function cleanHTML( html ) {
    var root = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument().body;

    root.innerHTML = html;

    //Manipulate the DOM here
    $(root).find("script, style, img").remove(); //jQuery is not relevant, I just didn't want to write exhausting boilerplate code just to make a point

    return root.innerHTML;
}


cleanHTML( '
hello
' );
//returns "
hello
" with the page unaffected