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Re:Saying Goodbye to Asm.js by Randomno on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @12:42PM (#48210479)
> (Flascc/Alchemy(?) I forgot all the names this went through)

Crossbridge was its third and most recent name.

Pepper.js is another interesting project from around this time that didn't pan out.

https://github.com/google/pepper.js/

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Re:Saying Goodbye to Asm.js by Yoric on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @12:49PM (#48210567)
Wasn't pepper the P in PNaCl?
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Re:Saying Goodbye to Asm.js by Randomno on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @01:00PM (#48210726)
The P in PNaCl is Portable.

Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/PPAPI by the end of its life.

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Re:Saying Goodbye to Asm.js by jcranmer on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @01:22PM (#48211048)
The most common plugins were Flash, Silverlight, Adobe Reader, and the Java applet plugin, and I think all of those were in mildly common use when plugins were on their last legs.
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Re:Saying Goodbye to Asm.js by pjmlp on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:18PM (#48213518)
Now you can have all of them running on top of WebAssembly, companies even pay for support.
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