Question: DOM manipulation vs Canvas

[shirish93]

Hi!

SO I've been playing around with your simulation a bit, and wanted to do some considerable fun work using it. But I realized whenever I start up the page, my laptop fan starts to sound like a helicopter. Do you know if it's a better idea to implement the simulation board in canvas, vs using DOM? Not a feature request though, just curious. I might look into using stuff like p5js to implement it using canvas if there'd be performance gains. (I don't understand what calculations could be causing so much work anyway)

[ncase]

Thanks for asking! So, as I learnt the hard way, emoji support is already really sketchy cross-browser and cross-OS, and even worse with canvas. Chrome can draw emoji to canvas. Firefox can't. And I don't even want to know what Internet Explorer does.

But! The next time I use emoji, I'll definitely use something like EmojiOne to prevent all these weird cross-whatever implementation issues