Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by fulafel on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:18PM (#27132030)

The copy and paste problem is sidestepped in android by the os native ocr, it might become common elsewhere too.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by fmakunbound on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:21PM (#27132062)

I can’t tell if you’re being facetious. Text is rendered to a canvas frame buffer and then the solution to text selection involves OCR?

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by davidgay on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:51PM (#27132397)

Amusingly, the Amiga lacked cut&paste support in most applications, so someone developed a tool that did precisely that.

Leading to questions like this: http://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=10580.0

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:23PM (#27132804)

I mean, that's how MacPaint was going to work. (They eventually ditched “edit text once it's written” entirely, for fear that people would use MacPaint for word processing, but the code was all written.)

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by fulafel on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:15PM (#27132712)

Cab I be facetious and factually describe the current state of affairs simultaneously?

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