Polyfills for jQuery to work in IE5.5

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This is intended as crude workarounds for filling jQuery specifically in IE 5.5. Note, this is not intended to be a comprehensive solution nor is it aimed at supporting both legacy browsers and modern browsers.

jquery.append.js

jQuery.fn.append = function( ) {
  var element   = this.get(0);
  var appending = arguments[0];
  if( appending.charAt(0) === "<" ){
    throw Error("This appears to be a dom element represented as a string. Please create the element then append");
  } else{
    // Wonder if there is a better way to do this
    element.innerHTML = element.innerHTML + appending;
  }
};

jquery.attr.js

jQuery.fn.isString = function ( value ){
  return typeof value === "string";
}
// I would rather like to know why jQuery.access fails silently in IE 5.5. In the meantime, this resolves the issues of accessing attributes.
jQuery.fn._attr = jQuery.fn.attr;
jQuery.fn.attr  = function ( ) {
  var key = arguments[0];
  if(arguments.length == 1) { // Perform a get
    this.get(0).getAttribute(key);
  }else{
    this.get(0).setAttribute(key,arguments[1]);
  }
}

jquery.prepend.js

jQuery.fn.prepend = function( ) {
  var element   = this.get(0);
  var appending = arguments[0];
  if(typeof appending === "string"){
    if( appending.charAt(0) === "<" ){
      throw Error("This appears to be a dom element represented as a string. Please create the element then prepend");
    } else{
      // Wonder if there is a better way to do this
      element.innerHTML = appending + element.innerHTML;
    }
  }else{
    element.insertBefore(arguments[0]);
  }
};