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dgudkov on May 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

>Google wants more control over their stuff. The web is becoming less open.

That's because the old problem "web-document vs web-application" hasn't been solved properly. HTML was designed for documents. It wasn't designed for applications. No wonder as applications become more sophisticated they try to squeeze out HTML/DOM where possible.

seumars on May 12, 2021 [–]

The irony being that Docs is a web document editor

mort96 on May 13, 2021 | [–]

And a document editor usually has a very different feature set from a document viewer.

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