D could catch this wave: web assembly

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/23/2015 12:37 PM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 11:09:31 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> This is nonsense.  They're just dumping in everything they can think
>> of, that has nothing to do with backwards-compatibility.
>
> Web tech is pretty good at backwards-compatibility. Not sure why anyone
> would argue against that.
>

Relatively speaking, yea, although it's not 100%:

There were ways to embed A/V in a page since ages ago, but HTML5 
browsers (most notably Chrome, as I recall) eliminated comparability 
with that when they put in the "new and better" way to do it. This was 
some time ago, but I ended up having to resort to Flash just to play an 
audio file, just because Chome refused to allow the old way, and some of 
the other browsers at the time (not just IE) didn't support the new way. 
(Yea, yea, I know, webpages with audio are evil, but this was a decision 
coming down from higher up for a project that was going to be used in 
nursing homes.)

And of course *that* method of playing audio broke once iOS Safari got big.

And then browser add-ons keep getting broken by automatic browser 
updates. At least on FF, anyway.