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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by jl6 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:02PM (#27133296)
Just imagine the sheer glee on the faces of the marketing department when their SEO experts tell them there is a technology that allows them to push pixels in peoples' faces while making it harder for users to engage in "unauthorized content use" and harder to block ads.

The web is about to get a whole lot more user hostile.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by munificent on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:04PM (#27135134)
> there is a technology that allows them to push pixels in peoples' faces while making it harder for users to engage in "unauthorized content use" and harder to block ads.

That was exactly true in the Flash days and yet it didn't take over the world or kill the open web.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by jl6 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:38PM (#27135453)
Canvas is more capable than Flash, it’s supported by everything already, it’s well sandboxed, it’s apparently faster than the alternatives, the technique in question now has the backing of a powerful industry leader, and the underlying technology is an open standard so it’s even got moral high ground.

And it’s possible we only managed to escape Flash-hell thanks to the fortuitous self-interest of Apple, so let’s not be complacent by assuming we’ll escape the next trap.

Having said all that, I actually like the idea of separating web applications from web documents and I don’t at all begrudge web application developers from doing what it takes to improve their applications. I just know it will be abused. The best I can hope for is that it leads to some re-focus on HTML as a stable and finished document language.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by rektide on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:30PM (#27135374)
Flash was small & ignorable enough to block. Nothing significant was lost. The web was winning, easily.

This is the return of Flash, except now, it's backed by Google.

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