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On my MacBook, canonic.com displays a few sentences of text and a few links. To do this, it takes 15 seconds to load a 25 megabyte WASM payload. The resulting p
by csande17 5y ago
On my MacBook, canonic.com displays a few sentences of text and a few links. To do this, it takes 15 seconds to load a 25 megabyte WASM payload. The resulting page draws all of its content onto a <canvas>, scrolls backwards because it somehow ignores my system's "natural scroll direction" setting, and doesn't let me right-click to open links in a new tab.
In other words, it's a demo of what Web performance and usability will be like ten years from now. Twitter and Reddit are already working on redesigning their websites to incorporate this new technology.
(In all seriousness, it's a demo of a subset of Qt compiled to run in a web browser, and it seems to work better on desktop.)
- projektfu 5y agoOK, I reloaded it in Brave on Ubuntu and it had the features you mentioned. I suppose it's interesting but it's unclear what path there is to making it the standard that replaces the standard.