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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by dahart on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:24PM (#27133490)
> The web is becoming less open.

Canvas and WebGL are both open standards, no? There are a million and one examples of losing openness, but I think this isn’t one of them.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by mort96 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:44AM (#27139901)
I bet it's a feeling of, "I used to be able to right click -> view source on any web page and see source code I could understand and learn from. I can't do that anymore, which makes it less open."

Which has some truth to it, but it applies almost equally to the current HTML-rendered Google Docs I'd bet.

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