Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10

Re:Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Window... by RussianCow on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @07:31PM (#9071808)

To some degree, yes. You just have to be able to re-use system UI controls like fields. So you wouldn't be able to just use WebGL/canvas/whatever in place of the DOM, you'd need to come up with a new API.

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Re:Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Window... by adamnemecek on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @07:44PM (#9071843)

I know. I was thinking that there'd be something like Qt that would render the widgets using WebGL.

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Re:Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Window... by RussianCow on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @08:16PM (#9071934)

Until the web becomes the dominant operating system, I don't think that's reasonable because you'd have to implement an entire UI kit (with all UI components, behaviors, animations, etc) but can't guarantee that it will behave at all like the underlying OS. There's only so much you can re-create in the browser.

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