Re: [Minutes admin] Google Docs becomes an HTML Canvas application

• From: Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net>
• Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 17:45:02 +0200
• To: "Deyan Ginev" <deyan.ginev@gmail.com>
• Cc: public-mathml4@w3.org
• Message-ID: <BA6AB67E-D6ED-4C06-A221-30368332545E@hoplahup.net>

Wow, this seems like a very effective way to better control what is 
copied from! That’s rather scary.

paul

On 15 May 2021, at 14:47, Deyan Ginev wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> My Saturday reading brought news of a rather startling planned
> development in Google Docs. They appear to be well on their way to
> migrating away from using the DOM in its entirety, and becoming a
> Canvas application, as announced here:
>
> https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-Canvas-Based-Rendering-Update.html
>
> There's a lot to be said and reacted to here, also from a MathML
> integration perspective.
>
> But the easiest reaction is that such a change may prove quite
> turbulent to minute-taking with enhanced accessibility features. And
> if we wanted to play things safe, we may want to rely on a more
> conservative solution that isn't planning a change to Canvas any time
> soon.
>
> Greetings,
> Deyan

Received on Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:45:19 UTC