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Rethinking DOM from first principles
Rethinking DOM from first principles
CSS has also gained the ability to round corners, draw gradients, and apply arbitrary clipping masks: it clearly has SVG-envy, but falls very short. While it might seem useful, the only reason the API has the shape that it does is because it's shoehorned into the DOM: elements must be descendants of<canvas> to fully participate in layout and styling, and to make accessibility work. The whole reason to do "complex UIs on canvas" is to do all the things the DOM doesn't do, like virtualizing content, just-in-time layout and styling, visual effects, custom gestures and hit-testing, and so on.
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