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by rektide 1115 days ago
Glad to see a pro-SVG piece. There's a steady trickle of folks switching to Canvas, and frameworks using Canvas (Flutter). But there's so many pro user pro internetworking advantages to using a higher level DOM instead of code to drive your media. I'd love if SVG folks could figure out how to better share & show off what they did too.

Right now Figma & Google Docs (for the doc itself, the chrome is almost all html) are the two posterchild apps everyone knows where canvas seems like an acceptable tradeoff. I think there's some valid uses, but it feels like a niche tool with huge downsides that I think most folks should avoid: keep your gui declarative, keep it legible in html, if you can.

Discussion on Felt switching to Canvas yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36217098