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.

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01. June 2014

Sunday Moseying

Here’s some stuff we saw while walking around North Cambridge and thereabouts Sunday morning.

Sunday moseying

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