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Why invent a new standard? HTML is fine, CSS is fine. Most importantly, everyone understands it and can work immediately with it. In order to render HTML, CSS
by panic 10y ago
Why invent a new standard? HTML is fine, CSS is fine. Most importantly, everyone understands it and can work immediately with it.
In order to render HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you need an entire web rendering engine. A new standard would let us get by with a lot less.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> In order to render HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you need an entire web rendering engine. Getting to piggyback on V8 and Blink work is, I suspect, often a benefit rather than a cost in the eyes of developers of Electron-based editors. Sure, it's bigger resource load, but for use cases where the performance is acceptable, it's a lot less developer load to get the functionality out the door.
- allendoerfer 10y agoUntil you have to reimplement even blinking cursors.
- dragonwriter 10y agoNo, even after that I'm pretty sure it's a net win in developer time.