Re:GitHub's Game Off is back
by derefr on Friday March 13, 2015 @03:23PM
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The better way to think of these is "zero-install URL-specified games". If there ever gets to be a standard for "ephemeral sandboxed apps launchable from URLs" (like the latest Chrome offers for Chrome Apps) then expect to see people stop caring about the term "web games" (or "web apps", for that matter) very quickly.
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> "ephemeral sandboxed apps launchable from URLs"
That's where we must eventually head in the future. Too bad we are light-years away. We probably have to re-design the PC from scratch to be able to do that.
There's a reason why browsers don't offer the same functionality that "plugins" do. And that's because of security. With "plugins", you are not any more secure then if you would download and run an executable.
Considering how the freeware market looks today, when even companies like Oracle and Adobe package their free apps with crapware ... And corporations like Google and Facebook monetizing private data ... There's more reasons then ever to be concerned about security.