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I haven't seen it work well. Part of the problem is that JavaScript is needed emulate many common GUI idioms, and the emulation or rendering is sometimes buggy on different browsers. It's back the the brand/version combinatorial explosion.

The industry really needs a dedicated GUI-friendly standard. Emulating GUI's keeps failing. If you fail 30 beauty contests, the blunt truth is you are ugly. Get a clue and change direction.

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There's hope. If you look at the GUI for Figma (an Illustrator and Sketch vector drawing competitor), they've built it using the Canvas tag...and it works AMAZINGLY well. I don't know how they did it, but it feels more like butter than Sketch, and I love Sketch. I'm waiting for someone to come along and basically build the Flash equivalent of a canvas tag renderer. But it's going to take some serious smarts.

There is some precedence. Rich Harris (of Rollup & Svelte fame) has been toying with the idea of a precompiler for Web GL...

This is called “forms”. The people who are failing to do better do care—they just also see the limits of the work.

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