Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly

Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by xoroshiro on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @07:36PM (#14449443)

I'm not familiar with what goes in a browser, but for some reason, browsers seem to eat up a lot of resources.

While I am happy that it looks like this will (more or less) be standardized across browsers, I still hope for the day where running a more minimal browser (text, image, maybe videos) will become viable. Of course, I'm pessimistic on this, seeing as so many sites are probably not functional without javascript and other related technologies, but maybe some web developers care about choice. Who knows.

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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by Ajedi32 on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:03PM (#14449991)

Well, there's AMP. Most people on HN seem to really hate that solution though.

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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by IamCarbonMan on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:23AM (#14450725)

I do this, or at least, I'm trying my hardest to. I use terminal interfaces to my usual sites like Reddit, Gmail, GitHub, Google, etc. A mouse button or keystroke opens links using a little script I've written which basically opens media files in feh/mpv/whatever, html sites using [Mercury](https://mercury.postlight.com/web-parser/) and links, and if I really need to open the page in Chrome for some reason, the open script will begin nagging me to find a terminal client for that service if I use it very often.

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