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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by nindalf on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:44PM (#27132321)
> We just need to stop making it do things it wasn't supposed to

This is a thread about Google Docs. Your suggestion to the Docs team is to ... stop? Just shut down their product?

Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by closeparen on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:53PM (#27132427)
Just send LibreOffice files as attachments via your personal email server, what’s the problem?

/s

Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by dvfjsdhgfv on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:32PM (#27132925)
Well, to be fair Libre Office online exists[0]. However, I believe EtherCalc[1] is faster.

[0] https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

[1] https://ethercalc.net/

Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by todd3834 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:48PM (#27132375)
I read this as sometimes you need to use an exit hatch like Canvas instead of a bunch of hacks to make a WYSIWYG editor strictly with the DOM. Google seemed to come to the same realization and that is why they are using Canvas
Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by vagrantJin on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:48PM (#27132372)
Oh no. They're google. They make a godforsaken browser. They can pay people to do nothing more than think about code. By all means. They can launch a satellite with css if they want.

But the rest of us plebs...

Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by scotty79 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:14PM (#27132707)
Btw for NASA css is shorthand for Control Stick Steering, which is something you did at later stages of landing with a space shuttle.
Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by NoGravitas on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:06PM (#27133325)
Yes? Most of the web really ought to be shut down. It's just providing negative utility to society.

Alternatively: return to monke.