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Agreed. I’ll take a more controversial stance that I’ve said here before: CSS/HTML are part of the problem and the community should have invested in proper UI/rendering frameworks a long time ago that weren’t designed around the quirks of HTML and CSS. Building an accessible canvas-based UI with a React-like API would make a lot more sense for SPAs, and maybe other types of websites too.

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Canvas is a blank slate to screen readers though.

Yeah that’s what I meant by accessible, agree it’s a problem today

> Building an accessible canvas-based UI with a React-like API would make a lot more sense for SPAs

https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas

React is the Simpsons of web tech (Referring to the "Simpsons did it meme" if that wasn't clear).

Thanks this is really close to what I was imagining, but looks like it’s been inactive for a long time.

Yes, the reactions to it were not very enthusiastic as you'd expect. Also it did have a11y issues.

There are a lot of interesting renderers for react, some of them are even maintained: https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-react-renderer

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