NaCl stable ABI

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Adam Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:j17fi9$280r$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Client-side scripting that throws away that god-awful JS crap being
>> utterly useless?
>
> As far as I can tell, it doesn't actually throw away JS! I've never
> actually used Google Native Client, but looking through the docs,
> I can't find any way to set event handlers or otherwise interact
> with the html.
>

Really? So what the hell *does* it do? Blow cycles just for the fuck of it?


> You still need to use Javascript to actually enhance the web page.
> (if you are writing an app that isn't a web page, for the love of
> God, please don't force it into the browser.) Maybe this will change
> as it matures, but that's the *first* thing I would have focused on
> (and indeed did in my weekend browser, although it's a different
> story I guess because mine is more like an html widget than plugin.)
>
>
> Also, I can't find a Firefox plugin or any other browser support.
> It looks like the Google thing is Google-only, and opt in by the
> individual users at that. In other words, utterly useless on real
> world websites because it won't actually work for 99% of users.
>
> The networking api looks pathetic too, and I doubt that will change,
> since web browser security is supposed to be maintained here.
>
> They added audio and video, so it might be usable for writing bad
> games, but even that is poor - they don't let you access the operating
> system.
>
>
>
> It's just not a really compelling offering, even if it were ubiquitious, 
> which,
> again it isn't. It is apparently only available
> on the worst browser on the market. Then, add on my belief
> that javascript is fairly rare in a good site anyway (do most your
> work on the server and you have a more useful environment and it
> degrades more easily), and I say: useless.

I see.