Ignoring whether asm.js is a fundamental protocol or not, the Web wasn't supposed to depend desperately on the byte orientation of the consumer. Surely you reme

Ignoring whether asm.js is a fundamental protocol or not, the Web wasn't supposed to depend desperately on the byte orientation of the consumer. Surely you remember how it was supposed to lift information access above what type of computer you viewed it on. WebGL's endian specification was the beginning of the end, after which folks started saying certain implementational details weren't worth caring about, and this just finishes it off. And that's not what was being sold in the beginning.