Today's IE weirdness

Trying to create some table cells with form elements today dynamically with JavaScript. Everything seemed to be OK, until I needed to set a colspan on one of my cells using setAttribute('colspan','8'). It worked in Mozilla, but IE refused to pick up on the attribute. As it turns out, IE is case-sensitive here and requires the S be capitalized. Mozilla doesn't care. I was very lucky to stumble into some big help on the matter.