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I agree with the general premise - sometimes "simple" things in software are really complex - but not the specific examples. The reason for the complexity in th

I agree with the general premise - sometimes "simple" things in software are really complex - but not the specific examples. The reason for the complexity in the author's examples is that they're using web canvases in a way they are not, as far as I know, intended to be used. Canvases are for 2D shapes/bitmap rendering, not complex text and user interactions. You're having trouble because you're reinventing the wheel. Maybe it's necessary for your use case, but that doesn't make it shocking that it's hard.

ec109685 4y ago
Unless you’ve done it before, there’s no way you would think it to be that complex to simulate the OS behavior. That was the point of the article. When reading that list, my thoughts turned to whether there is a good open source implementation that could be used / cross compiled into web assembly since surely somebody has done it correctly.