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> Eventually somebody is going to ship a product that's nothing more than a browser implemented in WASM that runs inside your browser Sounds like a slippery s
by thosakwe 7y ago
> Eventually somebody is going to ship a product that's nothing more than a browser implemented in WASM that runs inside your browser
Sounds like a slippery slope to me. What makes you think users will be satisfied with load times for something like that, which also probably will have a frustrating-to-use interface?
- sjy 7y agoUsers seem pretty satisfied with single-page apps. They are slow to load and have frustrating-to-use (inconsistent) interfaces, at least compared to my memory of 1990s desktop software. If users actually cared about performance then software would get faster over time.
- Someone 7y agoConsider some company running some web application for their employees that “works best in” IE 6 or, for example, Chrome, but the 2018 version. A third party that offers a way to run that on their iPad at the cost of a one-time 100MB download will find customers. archive.org also might find something like it useful. How else are you going to show old sites in 20 year’s time?