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Canvas rendering is starting to really kick ass, yet I can't help but feel that it doesn't quite belong. Is this how early Web pioneers felt about the img tag i

Canvas rendering is starting to really kick ass, yet I can't help but feel that it doesn't quite belong. Is this how early Web pioneers felt about the img tag in a Web of grey documents? I know there are practical applications, I can think of several off the top of my head. It just feels like we're overloading the browser with candy now. Do we now expect browser vendors to support cutting-edge, hardware accelerated graphics along-side those bleeding-edge standards we whine about?

z8000 17y ago
If you believe in the web as the future for apps equally powerful to desktop apps, all the nuts and bolts have to exist. I am neutral on such a vision personally but a browser vendor probably has likely already drank the kool aid. Thus, you don't need to expect anything as such things will likely be forthcoming.