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Yeah, but I imagine a future where an "operating system" is just a OpenGL + Networking + JS API, and you just load in HTML5.exe. The benefit of something like
by captainmuon 13y ago
Yeah, but
I imagine a future where an "operating system" is just a OpenGL + Networking + JS API, and you just load in HTML5.exe. The benefit of something like this is that it puts the power back in the hands of the people. You don't have to worry about Google and Apple restricting what you can do, you just load in the HTML5.exe that you know works. Want a new feature? Fork Firefox on GitHub.
(I don't want to belittle the technical achievement here - it sounds pretty cool! But I can't help but wonder wheter using the CLR or the Java VM wouldn't be better for many use cases, or even plain x86 machine code with virtualization.)
- skrebbel 13y agoTrue, but, deployment.
- derefr 13y agoAn operating system that has more fundamental concept of "URI access" than "file system"; and which does zero-install of any application you type in the URL of, temporarily for as long as you visit the site, isn't really not a web browser, is it?
- Touche 13y agoArbitrarily running x86 machine code fetched over the net? Pass.
- steveklabnik 13y agoI'm posting this comment from a ChromeBook Pixel... I think this future is mega interesting, and I hope it comes to pass.
- higherpurpose 13y agoIsn't that sort of what Google did with ChromeOS inside Windows 8?
- rjzzleep 13y agoi really hope i'm not just part of a distinct few, that think html, and js are not the future at all, but some old junk, that is unnecessarily being blown up out of proportions, just because at the time the wasn't anything better as an alternative.