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I'm kind of glad PNaCl is being researched, and it's really impressive engineering. I personally won't invest in it, but it will be very interesting if they pul
by jlongster 13y ago
I'm kind of glad PNaCl is being researched, and it's really impressive engineering. I personally won't invest in it, but it will be very interesting if they pull it off, especially if other other browser get interested in it. There has been zero interest so far so I'm not betting on it.
The thing that bothers me about PNaCl is the potential for Chrome to become silo'ed and for Google to start pushing it's own ecosystem over the web, if they can't get other browsers to join in. I don't think they'll actually do that, but the chance is still kind of scary.
- threeseed 13y ago> I don't think they'll actually do that Problem is there is history of Google doing exactly this: SPDY.
- haberman 13y agoSPDY is an open protocol which has been implemented by Firefox, IE, Opera, and Amazon Silk, and is being used as the basis of the HTTP 2.0 spec. I'm not sure how it could be any more open.
- threeseed 13y agoWhen Google owns a very popular browser and extremely popular websites they are in a unique position to drive the future of the web. Now it's clear with SPDY that they are willing to abuse this position to make defacto standards come into fruition. It's why I will never support any more of these unilateral efforts. Whether something is open or not is irrelevant when in the case of NativeClient every committer works at Google.
- haberman 13y agoWhat about SPDY was "abuse?" How is it any different than asm.js, which is likewise a single-vendor standard that they are pushing other browsers to adopt?
- josteink 13y agoThe thing that bothers me about PNaCl is the potential for Chrome to become silo'ed and for Google to start pushing it's own ecosystem over the web No need to wait. ChromeOS and Netflix proves they are already doing this.