"Now I wish that the same thing done here to javascript, were also done to html, CSS, the dom, etc." I agree 100%. If only we could see similar progress in the

"Now I wish that the same thing done here to javascript, were also done to html, CSS, the dom, etc." I agree 100%. If only we could see similar progress in the speed of DOM updates/manipulation life would be great. The fact is that most webapp performance issues aren't JS dependent, the bottleneck is the DOM.