I hope not as HTML has accessibility built in while canvas doesn’t. No need to take a step backwards on this. I’m okay with rendering to canvas but long as accessibility is taken into account. (Hint: most of the time it is not.)
But writing third-party search engines will become even more impossible.
Even Google’s OCR utility can’t reliably detect German Umlaute in fancy fonts.
If I understood properly: yes, I do share the bitterness.
<troll> Look at us introduce this great new lang! It will potentially get rid of 99.99% of the current web developers and prevent any future script kiddies from getting in the game!
Behold the speed of our sealed box environment little jimmy!
Stay tuned for next weeks episode of Tech%20Elitism where we cover DRM for the web and public discourse policing!
They can also do server side ads and make the url indistinguishable from another image asset. They haven't, so it isn't 'dire' enough yet.
Yet, plenty of people already prefer to send you a black page and manually write everything on the DOM's document. I certainly do not understand them, but they are way too common.
1 - You just write your content, and it's there. There isn't more declarative than that.
Probably because they're using front-end javascript frameworks which do that, and because they were taught that this is the best and most efficient way to render anything on the web. No one wants to make a special case for text because it seems inelegant.