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> Every site would have to re-download and re-JIT an entire browser engine before it could do anything. Isn't this like a revival of the dreadful era of brows
by FerociousTimes 4y ago
> Every site would have to re-download and re-JIT an entire browser engine before it could do anything.
Isn't this like a revival of the dreadful era of browser plug-ins from Adobe Flash Player to Java applets?
- masklinn 4y agoNo. The issue with flash and applets was not that you had to download stuff. It was that the security was non-existent (leading to the embedded runtime routinely crashing your browser), the interactivity was divergent from its surroundings, and the accessibility model was MIA. Also downloading 500K over 56k and over fiber or 5G are rather different propositions.