how many div's can you have before the dom slows and becomes unstable?

Question

I am developing a jQtouch app and each request done via ajax creates a new div in the document for the loaded content. Only a single div is shown at any one time.

How many div's can I have before the app starts getting unresponsive and slow?

Anyone have any ideas on this?

EDIT: Its an iPad app running on Safari, and it would be less than 1000 div's with very basic content

Answer 1

As others have said, there's really no answer.

However, in this talk about the Google Maps API version 3, the speaker brings up the number ten thousand several times, as a basic threshold for browser unhappiness.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/