Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by SavantIdiot on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:49PM (#27132383)

People are trying to make DOM be a WYSWIG text editor. You're point is dead on.

The response is to write an opaque, vendor-specific "DOM". Which is the complete opposite of what HTML was supposed to be. But the browser is now a platform and not a browser, so the metaphors are horribly mixed to the point where I'm not even sure what a DOM is supposed to be anymore.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:15PM (#27132715)

The DOM was always a WYSIWYG editor – albeit, for HTML, not text. Though, back in the day, HTML was a subset of text with image and table support; none of this fancy `line-height: 1.5em;`…

I wish the web had evolved in a more documenty way.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by SavantIdiot on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @04:26PM (#27134731)

Hmmm... maybe I should have chosen a different acronym.

What you expected to see isn't alwasy what you got.

WYETSIAWYG

Rendering across browsers and operating systems was a trainwreck until maybe 5 years ago (over a decade of polyfill is finally gone). And even with an ecosystem like ElectronJS + Bootstrap, Win10 MacOS and Linux all look slightly different.

So yes and no to "DOM was always...", but more "No."

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