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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by hughes on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:07PM (#38043937)
Sounds a lot like Flash.
Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by DaiPlusPlus on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:11PM (#38044008)
except without the local-system security risks
Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by SoftTalker on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:42PM (#38044382)
Says who?
Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by DaiPlusPlus on Friday October 27, 2023 @07:32PM (#38045311)
As an SWE who used to work on Internet Explorer (yeah, laugh), I know I can't say that JS is somehow impervious to possible attacks and privilege-escalation out of the browser-imposed sandbox (which can and does happen), but when one compares even the basic nature of Flash's plugin/ActiveX control vs modern browser JS engines, the threat-model and browser-vendors' mitigation strategy, it means I have easily 100x more trust in in-browser JS as a far, far "safe"-er environment than Flash.
Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by EvanAnderson on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:12PM (#38044022)
And no plug-in to download because everybody's browser has a highly-performant Javascript engine.
Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by imachine1980_ on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:33PM (#38044295)
i don't feel having like extra virtual dom over the virtual dom of react, will make things highly-performant, god we need this doesn't happen. i wish to see the 0,1 fps react crud app, that will come from this.
Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by szundi on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:53PM (#38044502)
This is the plugin