Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode

Re:Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode by Groxx on Thursday August 01, 2013 @01:46AM (#6138883)

tbh, I see it as (possibly) a better java applet. with better OpenGL support, so "real" games are actually feasible, and not even that hard.

Chrome is positioning itself very, very strongly as a platform, not just a browser, and this is a necessary part of that. I'm not a fan of this ever-widening set of things browsers have to do (separate from each other / external libs / etc) since it just raises the bar for any competitors, but I must admit it is nicer for the user than all the past attempts.

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Re:Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode by RyanZAG on Thursday August 01, 2013 @07:59AM (#6139640)

"Chrome is positioning itself very, very strongly as a platform"

This is terrible and I wish they'd stop doing this and stick to working with Mozilla more.

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Re:Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode by bad_user on Thursday August 01, 2013 @03:46AM (#6139128)

> Chrome is positioning itself very, very strongly as a platform, not just a browser

That makes no sense, because the browser is by definition a platform.

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Re:Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode by karl42 on Thursday August 01, 2013 @04:49AM (#6139267)

I don't know your definition of a browser, but in my opinion, a browser used to be mainly a document viewer. This is changing now, but the original statement does make sense in this context.

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Re:Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode by bad_user on Thursday August 01, 2013 @05:01AM (#6139303)

When? In 1995?

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