Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by eagsalazar2 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:37AM (#27131556)

Man, this is a very dramatic interpretation of their intent. Docs doesn't even have ads. They actually do have issues rendering consistently across browsers (I ran into this just like 2 days ago where something that had been carefully laid out on Chrome looked different in Safari).

My bigger criticism of this is that I imagine it was a very large refactor at a time when docs has barely evolved for years and still remains far behind desktop counterparts in many ways (although still slowly taking over because of vastly superior online collaboration).

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by addison-lee on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:47AM (#27131685)

Ahh yes because Google, an ad company, will never implement this where they do have ads.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by eagsalazar2 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @03:45PM (#27134346)

I never said they would never do this. I just said it was over dramatic and making big assumptions that this action by google was part of some nefarious plot to turn the internet back into corporate tv, especially given that there are very good reasons in this case to make this change without those assumptions.

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