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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by gentleman11 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:56PM (#27132469)
Care to elaborate what “real ui frameworks” do better? What frameworks do you have in mind when you say that?
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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by simiones on Thursday May 13, 2021 @10:59AM (#27142828)
Sure! I'm thinking of things like QT, WPF, WinForms, Java Swing.

What these have in common that is missing from HTML/CSS/DOM is a significant library of controls and layouts.

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