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Adjacency Theory is an explanation of the conflict surrounding Project Fugu; native APIs for the web. Antagonistic trade-offs seems like the explanation to me:

• based2 6y ago
  Needs vs Robustness (ex: security) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGPU
• onli 6y ago
  Right. And it does not discuss those tradeoffs. Ignoring that every time steps like these were taken (Java applets, activeX, webgpu, outlooks enhanced emails) it was security disaster is not a good sign. There is some mention of risks in the footnote 3, focusing on privacy, but that's not at all sufficient. And placing it in a footnote is telling on its own.
  • anoncareer0212 6y ago
    There are several mentions of privacy and tradeoffs before that footnote, the main argument that stuck with me was that _we don't except those tradeoffs from native_. It was very telling that Safari is open to implementing APIs if they magically don't require permission dialogs (looking at you, macOS), and that was specifically called out in the article.