The CSS Behind Figma

Re:The CSS Behind Figma by echelon on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:40PM (#32210105)

It's time for WASM and Rust. DOM tools can render to their own optimized GPU-accelerated canvas and ditch DOM outright.

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Re:The CSS Behind Figma by cercatrova on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:42AM (#32210394)

Figma already uses WASM and Rust.

> DOM tools can render to their own optimized GPU-accelerated canvas and ditch DOM outright.

This is literally exactly what Figma does.

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Re:The CSS Behind Figma by rikroots on Sunday July 24, 2022 @05:32AM (#32211752)

The big worry I have about this sort of approach is canvas accessibility. It's something the company also seems to be worried about - they put out a statement a couple of months ago about their plans to address accessibility issues going forward - https://www.figma.com/blog/a-step-forward-in-our-accessibili...

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Re:The CSS Behind Figma by klysm on Sunday July 24, 2022 @03:21AM (#32211166)

Furthermore it’s the only very popular app I know of to do that

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Re:The CSS Behind Figma by leodriesch on Sunday July 24, 2022 @08:08AM (#32212640)

Google Docs also does that [0].

[0]: http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-C...

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Re:The CSS Behind Figma by lelandfe on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:30AM (#32213327)

Lichess, Adobe XD, several Google products. Probably more I’m forgetting.

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Re:The CSS Behind Figma by RobbieGM on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:12PM (#32214808)

I'm pretty sure lichess doesn't do that. Even the chess board is done in the DOM.

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