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I don’t understand the point of this. I love canvas, but if your goal is to render buttons and other UI components then why not use the DOM? That’s what it’s th

I don’t understand the point of this. I love canvas, but if your goal is to render buttons and other UI components then why not use the DOM? That’s what it’s there for.

percyhanna 3y ago
Perhaps I could have shared more details on this. We did explore regular DOM/HTML for some of the functionality, but we needed to build it into our existing Whiteboards stack which uses Canvas. Rendering as HTML would not have worked for use case.
bobbylarrybobby 3y ago
Doesn't Google docs use canvas these days? I think the performance is just a lot better.
- FigurativeVoid 3y ago
  Canvas does have excellent performance, but I thought Google docs is built using some WASM stack
  - percyhanna 3y ago
    Google Docs uses Canvas + WASM, I believe.
  - moritzwarhier 3y ago
    This is not mutually exclusive, is it?