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WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Re: WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Post by tete »

rubber_duck wrote: post #44
tete wrote: post #3

I think this is a good thing. It probably prevented a new DirectX style dark age of the web. Probably! I don't pretend to be able predict what path companies would have went in the next few years. It's really good to see that there is a will to agree and that there is more than one player. Could always be more, also for keeping standards sane. (WebSQL officially failed because there isn't more variety)

>It probably prevented a new DirectX style dark age of the web. DirectX was hardly a dark age, DX8 and onwards was a step ahead of GL.

As already was pointed out. I meant to write ActiveX, not DirectX.

I don't actually know too much about graphics programming. Stupid mistake from my side. Sorry!

Re: WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Post by braveo »

ablankst wrote: post #123
jeswin wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if thousands of developers from HN switch, that would hardly move the needle. Ordinary users just won't care about any of this. Servo, which I think is the most important software project in the world, is where it will start to change. That's when those of us who may not be directly contributing code into Servo need to come out and do our thing. I still fondly remember the NYT ad and the crop circle. We should d…

> Even if thousands of developers from HN switch, that would hardly move the needle. Ordinary users just won't care about any of this. Thousands of developers from HN make websites . If they switch to Firefox, at the very least, the websites they make will support Firefox. This won't necessarily make Mozilla commercially viable, but if people are really that concerned about it, they can donate to the Mozilla Foundati…

that's purely a business decision.

Re: WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Post by braveo »

NiLSPACE wrote: post #150
daddykotex wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is Servo bringing to the table that will, in your opinion, make Firefox the browser of choice again? I'm asking genuinely here. Is Servo expected to be have a much better performance?

It heavily makes heavy use of parallelism and the GPU which increases the responsiveness. It's also uses Rust as a programming language instead of C++ which will prevent a whole category of bugs like buffer overflows and use after free.

Are these category of bugs a constant problem in FF?

Re: WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Post by MawKKe »

barrkel wrote: post #157
_Codemonkeyism wrote: post #84

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I use FF, although Mozilla focuses on thousand of other things instead of making FF a great browser. As a developer I'm annoyed every time I enter "com.scala.List" in the address bar and FF does not use google to search but thinks this is an url. No, "List" is not a TLD and no that website does not exist.

I feel exactly the other way about Chrome; whenever I need to type in a test site URL, it thinks it's a search query, and I need to go back and stick http:// in front.

FYI You can just add / at the end for the same effect

Re: WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Post by [deleted] »

ComodoHacker wrote: post #91
_Codemonkeyism wrote: post #84

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I use FF, although Mozilla focuses on thousand of other things instead of making FF a great browser. As a developer I'm annoyed every time I enter "com.scala.List" in the address bar and FF does not use google to search but thinks this is an url. No, "List" is not a TLD and no that website does not exist.

Try "g com.scala.List" instead. It's not that much inconvenience.

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Re: WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Post by Vinnl »

braveo wrote: post #162
ablankst wrote: post #123

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> Even if thousands of developers from HN switch, that would hardly move the needle. Ordinary users just won't care about any of this. Thousands of developers from HN make websites . If they switch to Firefox, at the very least, the websites they make will support Firefox. This won't necessarily make Mozilla commercially viable, but if people are really that concerned about it, they can donate to the Mozilla Foundati…

that's purely a business decision.

Our business decision is that Firefox needs to be supported as well. The fact that most of the developers use Chrome as their daily driver, however, results in a lot of bugs being seen and caught early (or at all) there.

Re: WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Post by Kiro »

SimonPStevens wrote: post #55

It's worth pointing out that Mozilla can only continue to put pressure on Google and fight for the open web if people continue to use Firefox and support them. Consider switching to Firefox even if you prefer Chrome. Report websites that don't support FF. We are all better off for the existence of Mozilla, and strong viable competition to Chrome and IE.

Report to what?

Re: WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Post by [deleted] »

SimonPStevens wrote: post #55

It's worth pointing out that Mozilla can only continue to put pressure on Google and fight for the open web if people continue to use Firefox and support them. Consider switching to Firefox even if you prefer Chrome. Report websites that don't support FF. We are all better off for the existence of Mozilla, and strong viable competition to Chrome and IE.

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Re: WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Post by echeese »

jchw wrote: post #141
valarauca1 wrote: post #118

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Whoa. Internet Exploder was constantly evolving and multi-platform. Did you forget IE ran on PPC Macs, X86 Macs, Windows, and CP/M? IE updated... just slower than Netscape.

IE ran on... CP/M ? What CP/M are you talking about?

They probably meant Windows CE or Pocket PC (P/PC)

Re: WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

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Post by NiLSPACE »

braveo wrote: post #163
NiLSPACE wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It heavily makes heavy use of parallelism and the GPU which increases the responsiveness. It's also uses Rust as a programming language instead of C++ which will prevent a whole category of bugs like buffer overflows and use after free.

Are these category of bugs a constant problem in FF?

Some of these bugs could've been prevented with Rust: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-0...
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