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You don't see a difference in openness between a proprietary programming environment and an open source language using an open standard drawing API?

Are you maybe saying canvasses are a step back for accessibility? Because I do see that problem (though hopefully it will be addressed).

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There’s open as in “can make” and there’s open as in “can repurpose”. I believe the parent is talking about the latter. The great thing about HTML is that it is machine readable by default, and that allows for permissionless innovation like search engines. You wouldn’t get Google in a world where everything was rendered to a bitmap, standards-based drawing API or not.

That's shifting the goal posts quite significantly. HTML is machine-readable because it's less powerful than a drawing API. There's a lot of applications that can't be created with plain HTML.

html isnt a programming language though is it

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