Adding some fixes for commit [6537]. If there's leading whitespace, or if an exception is thrown by innerHTML, we need to use the old style method.

src/manipulation.js

@@ -189,9 +189,10 @@ jQuery.fn.extend({
 
 		// See if we can take a shortcut and just use innerHTML
 		} else if ( typeof value === "string" && !/<script/i.test( value ) &&
-			this[0] && !jQuery.isXMLDoc( this[0] ) &&
+			(!jQuery.support.leadingWhitespace || !rleadingWhitespace.test( value )) &&
 			!wrapMap[ (rtagName.exec( value ) || ["", ""])[1].toLowerCase() ] ) {
 
+			try {
 				for ( var i = 0, l = this.length; i < l; i++ ) {
 					// Remove element nodes and prevent memory leaks
 					if ( this[i].nodeType === 1 ) {
@@ -200,6 +201,11 @@ jQuery.fn.extend({
 					}
 				}
 
+			// If using innerHTML throws an exception, use the fallback method
+			} catch(e) {
+				this.empty().append( value );
+			}
+
 		} else {
 			this.empty().append( value );
 		}