25. June 2014
Rendering faster by hiding DOM elements instead of removing them
I know that DOM manipulation is expensive, but I’ve found it just doesn’t make a difference in a typical web app. (And of course, DOM manipulation can rarely be avoided entirely in graphically-oriented apps; it’s a matter of reducing the amount of DOM-touching that happens in those cases.) Recently, I ran into a case in which it did matter, removeChild in particular.
