The URL parser has many quirks due to its origins in a time where conformance test suites were atypical and implementation requirements were hidden in the examples section. Some consider these quirks deeply problematic, but personally I don’t really mind that one can write a hundred slashes after a scheme instead of…
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There is a pretty good comment on Hacker News (of all places) by nostrademons explaining why the DOM is not slow . Basically, all the DOM mutation operations are pretty trivial. Inserting and removing nodes, moving them around, setting an attribute, etc. It’s layout that takes a while and layout can be synchronously…