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by throwaway333445 656 days ago
I wonder if there is ever a world where the websites themselves are just WebGL, and no one has to worry about CSS ever again. Ignoring a11y and CPU/GPU usage, that is...

Edit/addition: Congrats on your product! Always great to see a high-quality, pure software project get funded and realized. If I ever do YC (non-ivy so probably not in the cards) I'd probably do something like this.

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We dream about this all the time. Unfortunately, it breaks too much default behavior like browser extensions, password managers, SEO...

Maybe one day :)

I guess there'd need to be an API for extensions to treat WebGL rendered text as synthetic DOM node. Maybe WebGL apps expose and update a "virtual DOM" that represents how extensions/Google should interpret what is rendered...

Repaint might be in some sense the bridge, though!

Web.GPT.GL_AgI bot proxy to handle such pedestrian digital quibbles, indeed ;-)
I went to a non-ivy school and dropped out. There's always hope :)