Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem...
by j45 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:20AM
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Microsoft likely wanted it's own runtime in the browser that wasn't Flash or a Java Applet.
The DirectX controls you could use in Internet Explorer were a thing for a while.
The most interesting thing for me about all of this remains that WebAssembly ultimately became one of, if not the first write once, deploy anywhere standard that the major browsers agreed on (after implementing their own versions of it in a reasonably similar way).
The DirectX controls you could use in Internet Explorer were a thing for a while.
The most interesting thing for me about all of this remains that WebAssembly ultimately became one of, if not the first write once, deploy anywhere standard that the major browsers agreed on (after implementing their own versions of it in a reasonably similar way).