Erich Gamma, Technical Fellow, Microsoft: > what many people don't know is that we decided to not use any UI frameworks from the beginning, and that's still tr

Erich Gamma, Technical Fellow, Microsoft: > what many people don't know is that we decided to not use any UI frameworks from the beginning, and that's still true today because performance is very important to us, and we want to be fully in control of our own destiny. So we don't want to chase a framework or track down performance from in the framework, we want to be directly as close to the DOM as possible.