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I'm a big fan of the goal of making web apps as featureful and as powerful as native apps. Eventually, when we get wasm interface types, I'd like to see these a

by nynx 6y ago

I'm a big fan of the goal of making web apps as featureful and as powerful as native apps. Eventually, when we get wasm interface types, I'd like to see these apis available directly in wasm or at least, through a wasi module.

jimktrains2 6y ago
I'm still not entirely sold on websites having access to APIs like this. It's bad enough they get to run arbitrary code already, why widen the attack surface?
- myself248 6y ago
  If they all had a user-settable option for everything, and it was all default-deny, I might be okay with it. I can see the use case, but there is no fuckin' way Doubleclick should ever get to talk to my hardware, ever in a million years.
nippoo 6y ago
I'm a fan of the concept of a Web-distributed, powerful cross-platform, interpreted, sandboxed app with no App Store, etc. I'm not sure the existing, backwards-compatible, slightly kludged HTML5 / CSS / JS infrastructure is necessarily the way to go, though. I'd love to see a ground-up language/framework specifically written with the aim of developing and deploying cross-platform "web"-apps with powerful authentication, offline caching support etc.
- ianlevesque 6y ago
  Sounds like Java applets to me.
  - lmm 6y ago
    A Java Web Start application using JavaFX for UI is actually a really nice environment for application development. Sadly every runtime (including native executables) that isn't the web browser is treated as a security risk, while web "pages" running arbitrary code with any level of local hardware access are seen as safe, so I think we're stuck with the web stack for the long haul.