@orkel I observe no differences: http://jsfiddle.net/NAAP8/1/

However—and my apologies for not sufficiently communicating this above—I am aware that this is very likely a breaking change for some oldIE edge cases, and **still** advocate the removal in 1.10 of such a kludgy and incomplete fix. If this turns out to be sufficiently negative, we should add in something more comprehensive, very likely utilizing `wrapMap` to cover _all_ domManip methods and _all_ table-descendant elements.