[zachstronaut]

When we identify places that HTML/CSS are falling short for making desktop quality applications, and we bring those issues to the standards community, and we make HTML/CSS better, then we lift up everybody's applications. We make the whole web better. Together.

If we can get missing UI features into the browser, those UI features will have native implementations and APIs, and that will give all of us free functionality and better performance.

[devongovett]

Yup, and canvas is just a part of that. It gives control back to the web developers and allows us to create anything we want without waiting for browser implementations. IMO, HTML and CSS are fundamentally not designed for building this kind of app, which isn't really a solvable problem without inventing something new anyway. Either that or we abstract them to make working with them easier.

[zachstronaut]

Can you give an example of how Google Documents is falling short of being desktop class with their HTML/CSS based UI?