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I don't know, but I really, really don't hope we get to the point where every web application ships a bespoke, WebAssembly rendering engine and treats the brows
by stupidcar 10y ago
I don't know, but I really, really don't hope we get to the point where every web application ships a bespoke, WebAssembly rendering engine and treats the browser as WebGL dumb terminal. That sounds like a complete dystopia.
Think loading times are bad on script-heavy websites now? Wait until every web app uses its own mix of graphics, font and layout libraries, all compiled from C/C++ to WebAssembly and shipped in a 100MB blob. And rendered without any integration with accessibility technologies, and with basic things like copy and paste disabled to stop you "stealing" content. No thanks.
- jstewartmobile 10y agoThat's probably going to happen anyway. Just sayin'.
- int_19h 10y agoThat'll be the first step. Then people will notice all those crazy download times, and someone will figure out that things could be better if they could write a single reusable "container" app in WebAssembly and WebGL that could host nearly arbitrary content, described in some kind of high-level markup language that's reasonably concise...
- SixSigma 10y agoSVG markdown
- mtdewcmu 10y agoIt costs more to employ C/C++ developers than Javascript/HTML/CSS developers, so people are not going to recreate everything with bespoke C/C++.