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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by dgudkov on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:34AM (#27131517)
>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.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by seumars on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @04:27PM (#27134750)
The irony being that Docs is a web document editor
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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by mort96 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:41AM (#27139884)
And a document editor usually has a very different feature set from a document viewer.
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