Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
I think this is actually one of the few cases where canvas-based rendering makes sense as a replacement for the DOM.<p>Docs is a full-featured application which already has to re-implement a lot of DOM-like features in order to fulfill its primary function (things like text formatting and layout, spell checking, etc). Doing it all in canvas doesn&#x27;t sound significantly more difficult than what they&#x27;re already doing.<p>The loss of extensibility is regrettable, but probably worth the trade-off for better performance.<p>If this starts happening with more traditional websites, then yes I&#x27;d agree that&#x27;d be a bad thing. We&#x27;re certainly not there yet though.