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Everybody hated Java applets. Terrible for security! Worst thing ever! Glad they're gone! Hmmmmmm...
by mring33621 10y ago
Everybody hated Java applets. Terrible for security! Worst thing ever! Glad they're gone!
Hmmmmmm...
- pcwalton 10y agoFrom a security perspective, how is this any different from what you can already do with asm.js? (Remember, SpiderMonkey has a separate JIT mode for it.)
- wmil 10y agoJava applets needed to interact with the OS in various ways and required browsers to have sub views controlled by plugins. They were a lot more complex and risk prone. Especially since Sun kept adding features. WASM is much simpler. It's just a standard bytecode format that the JS engine can handle. It's much easier to secure.
- mring33621 10y agoWe will see.
- hackcasual 10y agoWASM feels like an evolution built on top of a lot of what's worked with Javascript.
- tomatsu 10y agoThis isn't a plugin. It also doesn't have the same privileges as the browser itself.