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Web pages where compilation costs and benefits are short may be one thing. But what about cached code? And what about real applications running in the browser?
by heisenbit 5y ago
Web pages where compilation costs and benefits are short may be one thing. But what about cached code? And what about real applications running in the browser?
- nicce 5y agoWe have come a long road to establish transparent protocols to run stuff on our browsers (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSON, HTTP protocol), yet we are going to towards compiled binary code, towards black-box schema. The users will have less power of the content on their browsers with compiled code and something like ad blockers become challenging to implement again. I'm not really big fan of this trend. For example Google Docs is being rewritten to use canvas and who knows what it actually does behind the scenes.
- pjmlp 5y agoBecause the Web should never had turned into a general purpose VM, HTML 4 was more than enough for interactive documents. For something we do have networking protocols.
- pjmlp 5y agoBack to native applications with standard networking protocols.