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Audio/video yes, but what's the point of running DOS emulators in a browser? What a browser can and cannot do should be very carefully balanced, or you end up w

• krapp 9y ago
  >Audio/video yes, but what's the point of running DOS emulators in a browser? The point is that if I want to play DOS games I only need a URL and a modern browser, just the same as with text, images and other media. That "software" becomes just another content type the web can provide, in a way that's transparent and easy for the end user. If nothing else, the browser can act as a sandbox for software that operating systems otherwise don't seem to provide. A developer can't sneak "rm -rf /*" into their javascript and have it work the way they could natively. > What a browser can and cannot do should be very carefully balanced, or you end up with a tangled mess of Chrome-only content and security/privacy catastrophes. I would argue things have gotten more stable, not less, over time. Flash is more or less dead, as are web applets, and a lot of security issues in javascript WRT overriding object primitives, high frequency timing, cross origin requests, etc, have been dealt with. It's not entirely the wild west anymore.