You're not missing anything. I switch back and forth between game development and web development and what the web guys see as 'fast' is underwhelming to a game

You're not missing anything. I switch back and forth between game development and web development and what the web guys see as 'fast' is underwhelming to a game developer. The interesting part here is how far web devs are bending over backwards to accommodate the weaknesses of the DOM. I wonder how much longer it's going to be before we go full circle and browsers natively support something similar to WPF or Flex.