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I wrote up a response to this but haven't found a good place to put it; might as well post it here.1) I think the idea about such an API encouraging good practice is very much correct, in the sense that it makes it harder to interleave DOM modification and layout flushes. That might make it worth doing on its own. 2) DOM APIs are not necessarily _that_ cheap in and of themselves (though they are c