[rudedogg]

> For example, all layout was pixel based.

These sort of excuses always come up when Delphi and its insane productivity is mentioned. The same thing happens in conversations about how slow software has gotten.

High-DPI displays, internationalization, and accessibility are a pain but don't introduce enough complexity to hand-waive away the criticism.

Going a bit off-topic, but the browser is carrying around so many legacy concepts and ideas - it's a complete disaster - but it's the only option. The document object model is slow and weird to use to build reactive user interfaces.

We should demand something better. The browser is a local maximum as an application platform, and we should stop defending it.

[baq]

The browser is the OS. We can already put WASM on a <canvas> and ignore most of it, but turns out rendering text properly is hard.

[tomcam]

Accessibility too