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Does anyone know if Skiff uses canvas-based rendering? I heard that Google Docs is moving toward a canvas-based rendering system, which will prevent some Chrome extensions (including my own accessibility extension) from working on Docs.

It would be great to know if Skiff could be an alternative for folks who rely on extensions to make document creation/editing more enjoyable and accessible.

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Skiff uses https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/czi-prosemirror last time I checked, which just uses the DOM.

Not only that, it breaks browser-native search functionality—and apparently replaces it with nothing, at least on Safari, where they've removed the standard search option entirely.

Strangely enough, the in-Google-Doc search function works just fine on Chrome.

I recognize that it sounds somewhat paranoid, but I strongly suspect this is a deliberate attempt to push people to use Chrome over other browsers.

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