Atomic updates of the whole Dataview JS block about obsidian-dataview HOT 2 OPEN

I'm not sure on this, but a true atomic operation I don't believe is possible. And furthermore I believe a long as you replace parts of the DOM a re-rendering will occur, which will cause flickering.

This of course is more noticeable the larger the block is that gets replaced. So it might be an option to replace only bits and pieces which actually changes, but that would be nearly impossible to code.

But I might be wrong in this subject, as there is loads of stuff happening behind the stages in this context.

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I believe, all elements on web-page are fully rendered at the moment they added. It doesn't matter if we add a single element, or add or a subtree of 10000 elements, in both cases elements will get their size and position once, at the same time. They will never change (or flicker), until the DOM get new external updates.

These updates may me programmatic (by our JavaScript), or caused by new data arriving to elements (such as img getting first portion of image from network).

Replacing element by same sized element will never cause jumping of elements below it, because the elements below remain their positions or sizes and have no reason to move.

No elements will flicker, until we help them to flicker (by adding empty/incomplete frames). Normally rendered elements are just replace each other. Even if the page gets huge updates, it may cause freezes, but hardly flickering.

So it's actually possible to make updates "atomic" from our side, expecting the browser under the hood also works well.

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