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		ljk on Nov 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Wall of Text how is it possible that the canvas seems to be infinite area?

ultimape on Nov 6, 2014 | [–]

I suspect some type of minecraft style chunking mechanism.

Kiro on Nov 6, 2014 | [–]

This needs an answer!

louisstow on Nov 6, 2014 | [–]

There's nothing special about it really. Blobs of text have a grid position, then I set the CSS left/top properties to gridX * gridWidth etc and the scrolling is done by CSS translate on the parent container div. The browser handles it all for me

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