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Re:Former Nvidia Dev's Thoughts on Vulkan/Mantle by interpol_p on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:26PM (#9195192)
Wouldn't that kill accessibility, selectable text, being able to call system services (i.e., on OS X hitting cmd+shift+D to get a dictionary definition of a word), any extensions which modify the page hierarchy, automatic translation/localisation, and so on.
Re:Former Nvidia Dev's Thoughts on Vulkan/Mantle by zaroth on Friday March 13, 2015 @12:53AM (#9195720)
Exactly; bypass this entire service layer maintained by thousands of engineers and try to do it in Javascript?! I think that's probably not a good idea.