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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by giancarlostoro on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:57AM (#17364275)
Mozilla too gets to write certain bits. WebAssembly is all Mozilla. I guess Google has more resources to invest in Chrome is the bigger difference.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by steveklabnik on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:32AM (#17365484)
WebAssembly started at Mozilla, but is very much not controlled by Mozilla today. It's a W3C Community group: https://webassembly.org/community/contributing/
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by giancarlostoro on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:26PM (#17370304)
That should be the goal of any browser vendor: collaboration towards getting new tech standardized.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by rubber_duck on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:30AM (#17364472)
Is it really ? I was under the impression that a large influence and a precursor to wasm was NaCL from Chrome along with ASM.js from Mozilla. Also Microsoft seems to be very involved in WASM.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by dbt00 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:44AM (#17365606)
If they're not all involved, it won't work, but firefox really lead asm.js, which was the actual precursor to webassembly. NaCL was more like a competitor that tried to do something similar but never got the kind of mainstream adoption needed for cross-browser support.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by dao- on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:31AM (#17365475)
NaCL is more like Google's ActiveX. wasm directly builds upon the experience and success Mozilla had with asm.js.
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