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Every day we get closer to reinventing the Java applet. Again.
by floating-io 2y ago
Every day we get closer to reinventing the Java applet.
Again.
- spintin 2y ago[dead]
- wffurr 2y agoWebAssembly is explicitly a new native plugin like API but cross browser, standardized , and with lessons learned for complexity and security. You can see it skimming the WebAssembly high level design goals: https://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/ https://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/. Many of them directly address limitations of past web content plugin systems.
- floating-io 2y agoLast time I looked, you still can't touch the DOM without a JavaScript shim. You can't use it to write "normal" client-side web applications without hacks and workarounds. IOW, it's a VM-style environment that pretty much lives on its own and completely ignores the elephant in the room: that it's running inside a browser that deals predominantly in HTML and CSS. Just like Java Applets, Flash, ...