WebAssembly design is done?

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d]

On 03/02/2017 04:18 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 18:28:00 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)
> wrote:
>> Well, it's Google's main domain, and they've kinda already settled
>> into a pattern of making decisions more on self-serving grounds than
>> for the good of the product/users. "Don't be evil" doesn't exactly set
>> a very high bar.
>
> I don't know, I have more trouble with Safari and Edge than Chrome and
> Firefox.

Well, web devs cater to Chrome and FF, and tend to ignore Safari/Edge. 
And I wasn't really just talking about browsers with that.

> The Internet is getting very 1984ish, but this goes way beyond Google,
> which I find to be better than average. Have you noticed how you receive
> advertising all over the Internet for the same product you looked at a
> few days before in a webshop and how Facebook and Linked In lists
> suggestions based on people you have only had peripheral interaction
> with? Extremely annoying. It makes me rank those companies as shady.

Maybe it's ADD-related or something, but my brain literally isn't 
capable of reading a page of text if there's something animating on the 
page (usually ads). Even the blinking cursor in a code editor can break 
my focus. So I've had to install Adblock Edge and NoScript[1] just to be 
*able* to use the web at all (basic, honest-to-goodness accessibility).

So, no, I honestly haven't noticed that phenomenon (although I have 
heard about it once before).

[1] Back when I was using Windows more, that Adblock Edge/NoScript combo 
also had the additional benefit of keeping my machine much safer from 
drive-by malware, even when other people around me were far more careful 
about good antivirus, never turned off auto-updates, and were still 
having their machines taken over by ransomware - which never touched any 
of my machines.

> At some point there will be a resistance movement, forking one of the
> main browsers and building in collaborative blacklisting etc.

I hope, but I'm skeptical. Big business is definitely headed very 1984, 
but that's happening less because of Orwellian control, and more because 
of mass apathy and widespread short-sighted self-interest (more Huxley 
than Orwell, from what I gather).

I also see certain issues with collaborative rankings - they can only be 
as intelligent as the average user, which often doesn't seem to be very 
much. And then there's other difficulties like this: https://xkcd.com/937/