CjK

Nik, thanks for pointing this out. I've checked and the button seems to work fine in IE.

I've had so many surprises with IE-browsers that a "it works" makes me ...

Looks like setting the "type"-Attribute actually causes the error:

b = $E('button');
b.set('type', 'foo');
--> ERROR

however:

b._.setAttribute('type', 'submit')...

This works in IE8 (and other browsers):

var b = $E('input', {name: 'commit', type: 'submit', value: 'bla'});

This fails in IE8 (but works in other browsers):

va...

Confirmed that this works now as expected.