WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers

Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by tzahola on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:30AM (#15694776)

I'd like to interject for a moment here, and pitch my idea about what I call the "Web 4.0". It's basically a binary equivalent of HTML, without the many inconveniences of HTML for content providers.

Web 4.0 pages are obfuscated WebAssembly payloads, that draw their contents via WebGL. This way, adblocking becomes impossible, as the actual content and ads are within the same opaque WebGL framebuffer. Stealing copyrighted text is also made significantly harder, beause the Web 4.0 platform leaves it up to the publisher to enable glyph selection and copying. You have concerns about accessibility? Web 4.0 is 100% accessible thanks WebAudio based realtime speech synthesis!

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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by taf2 on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:34AM (#15694799)

it'll also be harder to learn how things work... i wonder how much we've learned from reverse engineering the easy to read inline script tags... I definitely remember teaching myself JavaScript by reading blizzard.com's late 90s markup... figuring out that mouse over effect with onmouseover and onmouseout... works in ie4... but whats that strange bug in netscape 4..

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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by TremendousJudge on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:52AM (#15695452)

You can't really do that today anymore though

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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:47AM (#15695416)

> adblocking becomes impossible

No, it'd just take a sufficiently smart AI.

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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by shthed on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:44PM (#15701299)

Just like the good old days with sites built in Flash :)

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