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It makes me marvel at Google's engineering since they re-built Docs from scratch using canvas.
by danielvaughn 5y ago
It makes me marvel at Google's engineering since they re-built Docs from scratch using canvas.
- asiachick 5y agoYes, and Flutter, the web version, also does it from scratch. Which means CJK sucks on Flutter
- samwillis 5y agoExactly, the new Google Docs is a great example of how it can can be done, but only by a company with the resources they have. I have wandered if the solution is to use WASM to take a desktop rich text editor and make it available in the browser within a Canvas element.
- asiachick 5y agoNo, new Google Docs sucks For one, extensions that help with translation no longer function because there is no text for them to read. For two, any language that uses an IME (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, etcc...) the experience is super subpar
- danielvaughn 5y agoYeah I'm really interested in seeing something like that, for general purpose. I'd love to see what's possible with WASM + WebGPU for stuff like this.