title: Does visibility affect DOM manipulation performance?
body: <p>IE7/Windows XP</p>
  
  <p>I have a third party component in my page that does a lot of DOM manipulation to adjust itself each time the browser window is resized.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately I have little control of what it does internally and I have optimized everything else (such as callbacks and event handlers) as much as I can. I can't take the component off the flow by setting display:none because it fails measuring itself if I do so.</p>
  
  <p>In general, does setting visibility of the container to invisible during the resize help improve DOM rendering performance?</p>