Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won
by SquareWheel on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:51AM
(#14460189)
(P)NaCl was introduced to replace NPAPI, at a time when the majority of rich web interaction still happened through plugins.
I'm glad to see it killed off, and have been expecting it for a few years now. JS/asm and (hopefully soon) WebAssembly have supplanted many of its features and benefits.
Still, this doesn't strike me as anti-open web. Google offered a solution when one was needed - it didn't gain traction, so they eventually retired it.
Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won
by roca on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:30PM
(#14465500)
Google introduced PNaCl and made it available as a feature any Web page could use, knowing that there was effectively zero chance it would ever become a cross-browser Web standard. That was anti-open-Web.
I'm glad to see it killed off, and have been expecting it for a few years now. JS/asm and (hopefully soon) WebAssembly have supplanted many of its features and benefits.
Still, this doesn't strike me as anti-open web. Google offered a solution when one was needed - it didn't gain traction, so they eventually retired it.