Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML
by meltedcapacitor on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:52PM
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"modern web practices" may be more to blame than the browser. It's possible to make lean fast things running on browsers (within reason), but the culture is nobody gets fired for bloat. It's ubiquitous, same for mobile apps, server side, etc.
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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML
by account42 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @04:52AM
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The browser is responsible for providing web developers with ever-increasing resources to eat up. It also defers way an increasing amount of much functionality to javascript (or at least allows javascript to reimplement that functionality) - e.g. there is no native support for DASH video so you are always beholden to whatever js the website uses (unless you want to use website-specific hacks).