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Boost @nikitonsky@mastodon.online: Browsers were made to display walls of text, it’s the one thing they do best. They can literally rende…

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Boost @nikitonsky@mastodon.online:

Browsers were made to display walls of text, it’s the one thing they do best. They can literally render the entire War and Peace as a single static HTML page, no problems.

So why is your annoying React app removing (“virtualizing”) 8 paragraphs of a tiny 10-paragraph document the moment they go 1px off screen? Literally breaking search, selection, copy all, sometimes scroll. What are you optimizing for?

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