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> PNaCl, which Google says we should pronounce as "pinnacle" Or as I will call it, "P-salt". As in, take it with a grain of salt that Google will support this

> PNaCl, which Google says we should pronounce as "pinnacle" Or as I will call it, "P-salt". As in, take it with a grain of salt that Google will support this technology 18-24 months from now after it fails to gain much traction.

pekk 13y ago
If you think this kind of technology compares to Google Reader, you are just confused. WebGL would be a better comparison.
- coldtea 13y ago
  Only WebGL is a standard, whereas PNaCL is a Google only endeavor. If it doesn't catch up, they might abandon it just as they did anything else of theirs. Whereas they cannot abandon WebGL if they want to have a standards compliant browser.
  - TheZenPsycho 13y ago
    Actually google doesn't seem to have much problems with abandoning standards lately.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
  Perhaps Google's O3D, their 3D graphics implementation in the browser, which you haven't heard of. Why? Because when WebGL beat it, it was dropped.
  - mratzloff 13y ago
    At least Google released a final version of O3D that was an implementation on top of WebGL, providing a transition path. When they dropped Gears, they said they said, We realize there is not yet a simple, comprehensive way to take your Gears-enabled application and move it (and your entire userbase) over to a standards-based approach. We will continue to support Gears until such a migration is more feasible...[1] How did that turn out? They filed a Chromium ticket[2] that was moved to an html5rocks.com ticket[3] four months later that was closed as WONTFIX a month after that. My issue is not that they discontinue projects. My issue is how they often go about it. [1] http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html [2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37180 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37180 [3] http://code.google.com/p/html5rocks/issues/detail?id=73 http://code.google.com/p/html5rocks/issues/detail?id=73
antonwinter 13y ago
concurred, thusly it is the technology known as P Salt. The crusty residue left when drying out P
- vanderZwan 13y ago
  Phosphor?
  - peatmoss 13y ago
    Well, in some parts of the world, "p" is slang for methamphetamine. I'm guessing here that the OP rather means urine. So, let us all boil our urine into salt!

pekk 13y ago

If you think this kind of technology compares to Google Reader, you are just confused. WebGL would be a better comparison.

coldtea 13y ago
Only WebGL is a standard, whereas PNaCL is a Google only endeavor. If it doesn't catch up, they might abandon it just as they did anything else of theirs. Whereas they cannot abandon WebGL if they want to have a standards compliant browser.
- TheZenPsycho 13y ago
  Actually google doesn't seem to have much problems with abandoning standards lately.
TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
Perhaps Google's O3D, their 3D graphics implementation in the browser, which you haven't heard of. Why? Because when WebGL beat it, it was dropped.
- mratzloff 13y ago
  At least Google released a final version of O3D that was an implementation on top of WebGL, providing a transition path. When they dropped Gears, they said they said, We realize there is not yet a simple, comprehensive way to take your Gears-enabled application and move it (and your entire userbase) over to a standards-based approach. We will continue to support Gears until such a migration is more feasible...[1] How did that turn out? They filed a Chromium ticket[2] that was moved to an html5rocks.com ticket[3] four months later that was closed as WONTFIX a month after that. My issue is not that they discontinue projects. My issue is how they often go about it. [1] http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html [2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37180 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37180 [3] http://code.google.com/p/html5rocks/issues/detail?id=73 http://code.google.com/p/html5rocks/issues/detail?id=73

antonwinter 13y ago

concurred, thusly it is the technology known as P Salt. The crusty residue left when drying out P

vanderZwan 13y ago
Phosphor?
- peatmoss 13y ago
  Well, in some parts of the world, "p" is slang for methamphetamine. I'm guessing here that the OP rather means urine. So, let us all boil our urine into salt!