[johangavle]

Just guessing here but perhaps they are adhering to some spec about how DOM should work and behave that is as old as the web itself :) HTML standards, JS standards, CSS standards all move forward, perhaps we need a DOM 2.0. Or a new browser that rethinks how it handles DOM to shake things up

[Gigachad]

Google docs decided to just turn the page in to a big <canvas> and render everything manually.

[robbiejs]

That works because Google Docs is a full-screen app. You can't really use Canvas-rendered tables inside a regular web page: it doesn't scale, for one.

I have made a super fast spreadsheet-like component called DataGridXL, based on DOM, not canvas. A performant One Million Cells demo can be found here: https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells

[johangavle]

Yeah they sure have the resources available to pull such things off. But for the rest of us I dont think it is a way forward at the moment. You really start from scratch and how do you fix accessibility and such. Must have required huge effort on their part