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If the web kept going down that path, we’d end up with a dozen equivalents of Flash and Silverlight, dooming the web to become a closed hellscape.
by sjwright 7y ago
If the web kept going down that path, we’d end up with a dozen equivalents of Flash and Silverlight, dooming the web to become a closed hellscape.
- pjmlp 7y agoPandora box is already open, the only way back is to remove WebAssembly from the browsers. https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly https://platform.uno/showcases/ https://platform.uno/showcases/ https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html
- edwintorok 7y agoAt least you can sandbox and run webassembly everywhere with an open interpreter/JIT. With plugins you have to trust and install some binary code on your system, no sandboxing, no idea what it does and what it can access, etc. Much worse.
- pjmlp 7y agoJavaScript based exploits show how well it works.