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> All these excuses, especially about vanity, are masking behaviors.

1. These are not excuses, these are facts of life

2. No idea where you got vanity from

> DOM access is not quite as fast now as it was 10 years ago. I was getting just under a billion operations per second

Who said anything about DOM access?

> The only real performance problem is the JS developer doing stupid shit.

Ah yes. I didn't know that "animating a simple rectangle requires 60% CPU" is "developers doing stupid shit" and not DOM being slow because you could do meaningless "DOM access" billions time a second.

Please re-read what I wrote and make a good faith attempt to understand it. Overcome your bias and foregone conclusions.





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