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Good luck running a web browser plus your application on a smart card, or even (decently) on an underpowered netbook. Sufficiently young people probably suspec

by owl57 7y ago

Good luck running a web browser plus your application on a smart card, or even (decently) on an underpowered netbook. Sufficiently young people probably suspect these were called netbooks as some joke. They run Emacs just fine and without constantly swapping, but a web browser?

hedora 7y ago
They’re fine little web browsers if you manage to enable web browser acceleration for the integrated intel video card. If not, they can’t even run JavaScript ads, because apparently ads like to refresh the screen with a static image at 60fps. Software rasterizers can’t keep up with that (even on 32 core, >200W TDP xeons, from what I’ve seen...) The web really sucks at everything other than network effects.
- otabdeveloper4 7y ago
  > They’re fine little web browsers if you manage to enable web browser acceleration for the integrated intel video card. Hardware acceleration makes things slower, not faster. > Software rasterizers can’t keep up with that (even on 32 core, >200W TDP xeons, from what I’ve seen...) You're nuts. Software rasterizers keep up with DOS games just fine, even on an old 386. It's the fact that they're trying to use Javascript and other garbage-collected or object-oriented languages to code these rasterizers.