[joshmarinacci]

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]

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]

Doesn't Google docs use canvas these days? I think the performance is just a lot better.

[FigurativeVoid]

Canvas does have excellent performance, but I thought Google docs is built using some WASM stack

[percyhanna]

Google Docs uses Canvas + WASM, I believe.

[moritzwarhier]

This is not mutually exclusive, is it?