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I don't think that's going to happen and I hope that's not going to happen. DOM provides good abstraction of UI elements, which helps with accessibility, scroll

by krcz 6y ago

I don't think that's going to happen and I hope that's not going to happen. DOM provides good abstraction of UI elements, which helps with accessibility, scrolling behaviour with the same feel as OS, standard text utils like selection, copy-paste. Using many incompatible libraries for that would lead to neo-Flash nightmare. What I believe is going to happen is splitting more complex web applications into frontend part - written in JS - and backend + graphics part - provided as Wasm, possibly written in Rust.

gameswithgo 6y ago
>DOM provides good abstraction of UI elements Does it, or do we just have a whole generation of people used to that abstraction, who can't imagine anything better?
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  It fundamentally doesn't do what UIs need it to. That's why most web UI frameworks use a 'VDOM'. When a framework finds a clever way to avoid doing this (Svelte), we all applaud the accomplishment. I think that gives us our answer. </snark>