| DOM manipulation may be absurdly slow however | it cannot hold a candle to latency hold-ups. Just an anecdote, but jQueryUI + IE8 took 8 seconds to style a

| DOM manipulation may be absurdly slow however | it cannot hold a candle to latency hold-ups. Just an anecdote, but jQueryUI + IE8 took 8 seconds to style all of the buttons[1] we had on a page during one call. Granted, we had a ton of buttons (most were hidden), but that's a lot of time. The same call on Firefox and Chrome were fractions of a second (can't remember the exact numbers, but Chrome was faster at the time), and this was a couple of years ago. DOM manipulation can be a real drag. [1] http://jqueryui.com/button/ http://jqueryui.com/button/