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What an earth is on that web app that it can't work on an up-to-date Firefox?
by gorbachev 9y ago
What an earth is on that web app that it can't work on an up-to-date Firefox?
- ogrisel 9y agoIt's basically a demo of their native code sandbox technology: (P)NaCL https://developer.chrome.com/native-client https://developer.chrome.com/native-client This new online notebook system is probably the successor of: http://colaboratory.jupyter.org/welcome/ http://colaboratory.jupyter.org/welcome/
- ogrisel 9y agoI was confused. This is a hosted colaboraty service. But the new google drive / jupyter integration is called jupyter-drive: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-drive https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-drive
- jchw 9y agoIs this really a demo of PNaCl? While I can find references to a previous project also called Colaboratory, which appears to have a Chrome app and probably indeed used NaCl/PNaCl, this actually appears to connect to a backend of some sort, as evidenced by the "Registration required" whenever you try to run any code in Google Chrome.
- cabalamat 9y agoEmbrace, extend and extinguish. Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss.
- jchw 9y agoWebComponents is the reason the page won't display anything in Firefox. If you enable them in about:config, you will at least be able to view the sheet.