That's not what I was saying though, if you rewrote it for some reason, it probably wouldn't look the same at all. The easiest example is that you used to have

That's not what I was saying though, if you rewrote it for some reason, it probably wouldn't look the same at all. The easiest example is that you used to have to create and add every single node of a table, for example, modify all the properties line by line, create a tbody, add that to the table, create a tr element, add that to the body, add a td element, etc., etc. I can do all that in one line now. And 20 years ago, XMLHttpRequest had only just been released and you were more likely to be doing dynamic updating with crazy stuff in iframes. Let's not even get started on divs vs tables for layout...