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We're just one more concession away from getting the performance we had 20 years ago with native applications. Edit: The path we're on just seems so obvious I
by tengbretson 5y ago
We're just one more concession away from getting the performance we had 20 years ago with native applications.
Edit:
The path we're on just seems so obvious I kind of just want to skip ahead and get it over with.
- Developers and content publishers love the ergonomics and control of just shipping WASM binaries that paint to a canvas and it becomes the de facto standard.
- After 2-3 years of everyone's computer being used to surreptitiously mine crypto everywhere they go we re-learn the lessons of Java applets.
- In comes browsers that require signed WASM binaries for your protection.
The world is an app store. Curtains.
- goalieca 5y agoCareful here, these are more like thin clients with high network latencies.
- EvanAnderson 5y agoThere's local processing and peripherals. I think you're looking for the term "smart terminals". Something like these for the "modern era": https://www.curiousmarc.com/computing/hp-264x-terminals https://www.curiousmarc.com/computing/hp-264x-terminals
- tshaddox 5y agoBrowsers still support arcane HMTL features from decades ago (and thus can display most web sites from decades ago). Other than things that were already decidedly not part of web standards (like Flash), I’m aware of very little if any backwards-incompatible changes made by popular browsers. So I'm having trouble seeing this slippery slope you’re describing.
- sgt 5y agoFunny. And then at some point someone will rediscover native apps.