[archagon]

Yeah, I added a comment about that. It's true that web frameworks essentially work like this, but I still think it's massively backwards that we're building web apps by using JS to manipulate a text rendering engine and not the other way around. In my opinion, this is one of the primary reasons why web apps never feel as good as native.

To look at it another way, this means that HTML and CSS are sort of the web's "layout and appearance bytecode", and they're pretty mismatched for that purpose.