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by elinchrome 3779 days ago
Those were faster in the late 90s. How is it so slow?
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tamana 3778 days ago
How did it work back then? A transparent canvas overlay? CSS element position changes?
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PavlovsCat 3778 days ago
> A transparent canvas overlay

Yes. Using the DOM for a lot of individual spans totally kills this.

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rescbr 3779 days ago
My guesses: OOP-style JS and translate3D CSS for moving the objects around.
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