Re:Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access
by millstone on Monday November 12, 2018 @11:33PM
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The web is awkward and clunky because it's a document markup format with bad application APIs layered on top.
WASM solves certain problems like arithmetic being slow. This doesn't fix the web's problems; it merely enables a new class of bad apps to be written on the web.
The best streaming video services are not web based. Thank goodness Netflix and Hulu have native iPad apps to spare me their websites.
Re:Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access
by saagarjha on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:05AM
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> As always on network connection becomes more and more ubiquitous, internet connected experiences become better and better. Just look at (well-designed) experiences today like streaming video.
As not everyone even has a network connection, I find this kind of viewpoint outright dangerous because it leaves out hundreds of millions of people. Streaming video, in particular, seems to choke if you don't if you don't have the absolutely best connection.
I'm excited about things like WASM that will allow browser-based experiences to close the gap more and more with native apps. The web infrastructure is extremely powerful and has a fairly low barrier to entry so lots of people throw crappy experiences up, granted, but it's generally a good thing to have the resources so accessible.