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I'm pretty sure PNaCl was created to solve the disconnect between ARM based Chromebooks and Atom based Chromebooks. If it also works for Chrome on Android, I th

I'm pretty sure PNaCl was created to solve the disconnect between ARM based Chromebooks and Atom based Chromebooks. If it also works for Chrome on Android, I think that is a happy side effect, especially since PNaCl was introduced (through flags) in Chrome shortly after the Samsung ARM Chromebook was released. If you want to create packaged Chrome applications for the Chrome Store, you want them to work regardless of the machine architecture.

dragonwriter 13y ago
> I'm pretty sure PNaCl was created to solve the disconnect between ARM based Chromebooks and Atom based Chromebooks. I think PNaCl was announced (as a long-range project) before ChromeOS was, and I'm certain it was announced before there were any actual Chromebooks, muhc less a concrete disconnect between ARM-based and x86-based Chromebooks. It was created to solve the problem of high-performance software being tied to a particular native platform, which was clearly an issue for Google's long-term vision of web-as-dominant-platform long before there were concrete issues of different platforms for Chromebooks.