Re:JavaScript Bloat in 2024
by troupo on Saturday February 24, 2024 @11:25AM
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> This is what I was talking about: you’re talking about the DOM but describing things like layout and rendering.
Ah yes, because layout and rendering are absolutely divorced from DOM and have nothing to do with it :)
> that’s never going to catch up with WebGL for the kinds of simple things you’re focused on - displaying a rectangle which doesn’t affect its peers other than transparency is a really tuned fast path with hardware acceleration
You will never catch up with anything. It's amazing how people keep missing the point on purpose even if they eventually almost literally repeat what I write word for word, and find no issues with that.
Here are your words: "The web is centered on documents and text layout". Yes, yes it is. And it's barely usable for that. But then we've added lots of haphazard hacks on top of it. The rest I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39485437
Ah yes, because layout and rendering are absolutely divorced from DOM and have nothing to do with it :)
> that’s never going to catch up with WebGL for the kinds of simple things you’re focused on - displaying a rectangle which doesn’t affect its peers other than transparency is a really tuned fast path with hardware acceleration
You will never catch up with anything. It's amazing how people keep missing the point on purpose even if they eventually almost literally repeat what I write word for word, and find no issues with that.
Here are your words: "The web is centered on documents and text layout". Yes, yes it is. And it's barely usable for that. But then we've added lots of haphazard hacks on top of it. The rest I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39485437