haha! Nice exchange, it persuaded me (along with FG's report a while back of success) to re-enable display lists, so far (touch wood) it Just Works!
Not that things were slow without them... hmm, maybe I better check and make sure they are not... nope... but still, should make things even zippier.
I have been thinking about it, it sounds as if we can treat Ajax like OpenGL so we have a leg up on the implementation.
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