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I am not sure about it. Yes, it is true that HTML/CSS got slower as the time passed. It got new features after all. Still, I don't think that drawing a rectangu

by bmacho 4y ago

I am not sure about it. Yes, it is true that HTML/CSS got slower as the time passed. It got new features after all. Still, I don't think that drawing a rectangular box with text in it should be slow if you have say more than 100Mhz CPU / anything from the current millennia. Even if it is described by current HTML standards. Also, restricting XUL to a subset/older css/html standard is also an option.

illiarian 4y ago
> I don't think that drawing a rectangular box with text in it should be slow It is. Because you don't draw rectangles in HTM/CSS, it's not low-level enough for that. You have a system that was designed to display one page of text in one pass that has complex contradictory layout rules grafted on top of it. So now if you even look at it funny it needs to re-layout and re-draw the entire page. There's a reason why you still can't animate height:auto