Excellent questions! I struggled with this, as I wanted the code to remain lightweight and streamlined, but at the same time, I wanted things to work consistently across browsers. Gimme tries to normalize the issue you called out with matching on name attributes.

It does not however, fix any quirks regarding innerHTML with elements like table or select.

It does however, do an excellent job (better than most libraries IMO) in normalizing the event model. It forces IE to maintain proper use of the "this" keyword, it make IE understand .target, .relatedTarget, .stopPropagation(), and .preventDefault(), and it ensure that only one element/event/function combination can be wired up at a time (like all other browsers do).

e.g. does g('#someID') overcome IE (pre issues with case and matching on name attributes?
http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/08/bug-152-getelementbyid-returns.html

likewise, if you try to set the .innerHTML on elements that IE doesn't normally supprt (Select, Table, etc.) will these work?

Thanks,
Barry