[blasdel]

The VML APIs that've been in IE forever are all pretty damn fast individually, but displaying the results slows the rendering down significantly. It's like how straightforward PHP is damn fast as a templating system, but absurdly slow for implementing a high-level templating system in.

Besides, text selection wouldn't work.

Have y'all managed to avoid implementing a GDocs-style system for hiding text underneath bitmaps for selection?