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Their wordsThis was an invention of Microsoft. While slightly less reckless that document.write, it is also unsafe and should no longer be used.
Their wordsSince then, the web standards community has, for the most part, corrected many of WC3's failures. The DOM is much less deficient and much more portable and reliable. That is why I now recommend abandoning the libraries, which have grown into bloated platforms, and instead using the DOM and plain old JavaScript together.
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