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>Mozilla has been steadily improving the Web platform to support features that were once only available via NPAPI plugins. Does this mean we'll get pre-emption
by Lerc 11y ago
>Mozilla has been steadily improving the Web platform to support features that were once only available via NPAPI plugins.
Does this mean we'll get pre-emption and blocking I/O in JavaScript?
You can do that in a plugin.
- bzbarsky 11y agoThe fact that you can do that in a plugin is one of the main reasons plugins are being dropped. It turns out that blocking I/O on the main thread is not a good thing. Oh, and you can in fact do blocking I/O in JavaScript in a worker, if you're not talking about doing it on the main thread.