I'm not talking about displaying just numbers. Bars, numbers, animated things with shadows, filters and tweens. All trivial to do in the DOM with CSS while maki

I'm not talking about displaying just numbers. Bars, numbers, animated things with shadows, filters and tweens. All trivial to do in the DOM with CSS while making it from scratch in a canvas (not using any engine) would be extremely cumbersome. And even if it's just text that's explicitly something you shouldn't do in canvas if you care about performance: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/Tutorial/Optimizing_canvas https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/... > Avoid text rendering whenever possible. So then I'm forced to create rendered font glyphs and use tooling for the texture atlas when drawing characters. Again, much easier just overlaying an element and do it in the DOM.