Avoiding writes to the DOM is a good tip for beginners. As a desktop developer, you're going to realize quickly that DOM is decent model for documents, but a te

Avoiding writes to the DOM is a good tip for beginners. As a desktop developer, you're going to realize quickly that DOM is decent model for documents, but a terrible paradigm for interactive applications. Overall performance is terrible and varies widely between browsers. We either need a new standard or a DOM browser battle like what happened with JavaScript, bringing it from 100x to 3x of native.