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Wouldn’t a UI in WebAssembly make it impossible to block ads? The recent QT announcement renders to Canvas doesn’t it? I thought the idea was to mostly use Web
by imjasonmiller 8y ago
Wouldn’t a UI in WebAssembly make it impossible to block ads? The recent QT announcement renders to Canvas doesn’t it?
I thought the idea was to mostly use WebAssembly for parts that are performance critical, not replace all of it?
- shawnz 8y agoThis has always been possible if you just write sufficiently obfuscated JavaScript. However a UI that is entirely rendered in a canvas element would basically be unusable by anyone with a disability, so that technique is useless for big orgs.
- gnode 8y agoThe cynic in me can't help but expect most web companies to care more about pushing unblockable ads down everyone's throats than about the disabled.
- acdha 8y agoThat’s why decent countries have regulation to make them care about things other than short-term profit.
- jopsen 8y agoWhat stopping anyone from adding accessibility features to single element canvas apps? A UI framework developed exclusively for canvas-apps could probably add many such features.
- pjmlp 8y agoIt is not correct, but most big orgs don't care about those details unless they are legally enforced by the government. I am yet to have worked in any web project where stuff like ARIA was even on the requirements list.
- Ajedi32 8y agoUnless they spent a _ton_ of effort re-implementing the DOM/native browser UI in canvas, it'd probably be basically unusable by anyone without a disability too.
- dmm 8y ago> Wouldn’t a UI in WebAssembly make it impossible to block ads? In the future machine learning will be applied to detect and disable ads visually.
- earenndil 8y agoIt would also be impossible to inject ads into an existing wasm ui that didn't have them.