On: The CSS Behind Figma

[echelon]

It's time for WASM and Rust. DOM tools can render to their own optimized GPU-accelerated canvas and ditch DOM outright.

[cercatrova → echelon]

Figma already uses WASM and Rust.

> DOM tools can render to their own optimized GPU-accelerated canvas and ditch DOM outright.

This is literally exactly what Figma does.

[rikroots → cercatrova]

The big worry I have about this sort of approach is canvas accessibility. It's something the company also seems to be worried about - they put out a statement a couple of months ago about their plans to address accessibility issues going forward - https://www.figma.com/blog/a-step-forward-in-our-accessibili...

[klysm → cercatrova]

Furthermore it’s the only very popular app I know of to do that

[leodriesch → klysm]

Google Docs also does that [0].

[0]: http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-C...

[lelandfe → klysm]

Lichess, Adobe XD, several Google products. Probably more I’m forgetting.

[RobbieGM → lelandfe]

I'm pretty sure lichess doesn't do that. Even the chess board is done in the DOM.