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Re:The Elusive Universal Web Bytecode by rictic on Thursday March 26, 2015 @03:40PM (#9272504)
Well put. One nit: I think you mean backwards compatibility, though asm.js can also be expected to work without modification in future browsers and future versions of javascript.
Re:The Elusive Universal Web Bytecode by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday March 26, 2015 @08:19PM (#9274040)
Yeah, I originally put backwards-compatibility, but I wasn't sure if forwards-compatibility was the right word for allowing old software to use new code.