This is very exciting. I've had the chance to meet Brendan Eich a couple of times at Moz conferences, and he never fails to strike me as a visionary and a super nice guy. Between the asm.js stuff and Rust (which I actually had the privilege of witnessing the much-anticipated unveilling several years ago. Honestly I thought it was an overly-ambitious fools errand but that's why I'm not cto of mozilla), he really seems to be driving Mozilla exactly in the right path of where the web is going.
Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
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Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
#12This doesn't even use WebGL2?
Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
#13Was that video running in Chrome? Honest question, if that's the new Firefox, it really, really looks like Chrome...
Firefox's new theme does look a lot like Chrome. The tabs are more rounded and the color scheme is a bit different, but without going into the menus it's hard to tell them apart at first glance sometimes.
Oh yuck, they're bringing back the big wasted void along the top of my page? The fact that Firefox replaces the title-bar with tabs is my favorite feature of the darned thing.
Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
#14Epic Games and Mozilla are demonstrating how the Web is continuing to evolve as a powerful platform [..] And you're still using a youtube embed because a single, simple tag like is too effin' problematic. Yeah yeah, I get it. isn't relevant to gaming. WebGL and gaming are cool new stuff, is prehistoric crap nobody cares about anymore. The world has moved on.
I think it's more because of 'outsourcing' the bandwidth of the video to Youtube.
Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
#15Was that video running in Chrome? Honest question, if that's the new Firefox, it really, really looks like Chrome...
The new UI (Australis) has landed on the Firefox Aurora channel, if you'd like to check it out for yourself:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#aurora
Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
#16Epic Games and Mozilla are demonstrating how the Web is continuing to evolve as a powerful platform [..] And you're still using a youtube embed because a single, simple tag like is too effin' problematic. Yeah yeah, I get it. isn't relevant to gaming. WebGL and gaming are cool new stuff, is prehistoric crap nobody cares about anymore. The world has moved on.
Serving videos off YouTube allows them to avoid bandwidth costs.
P.S.: YouTube uses their HTML5 player wherever possible.
Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
#17This is neat and all, but I wonder if things are really better moving to "in the browser." The discussion is of "upwards of 60% as fast as native." Is this using the same amount of processing power as native, or is this "67% as fast as native, using 200% of the CPU as a native solution?" I mean, I realize that processors and machines are only getting more capable. It seems silly to start requiring faster and faster p…
For a high level managed language, 67% would be pretty godlike. There are some C programs that are less than 67% the speed of their own -O2 compilations. If 67% native speed winds up being the average efficiency, that's plenty good enough for the vast majority of computing.
As recent history has been teaching us, doing more with less has mainly to do with getting more mobile, distributed, and ubiquitous. We're quickly reaching the point where that means something even "smaller" than a web browser.
EDIT: Could WhatsApp be the 2nd coming of WAP?
Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
#18This is neat and all, but I wonder if things are really better moving to "in the browser." The discussion is of "upwards of 60% as fast as native." Is this using the same amount of processing power as native, or is this "67% as fast as native, using 200% of the CPU as a native solution?" I mean, I realize that processors and machines are only getting more capable. It seems silly to start requiring faster and faster p…
Especially considering that asm.js isn't really using a JS execution engine. You can smuggle a low-level machine code via any mechanism. As I understand, without asm.js specific optimizations, it doesn't really work.
I know, it's a cute way to get some movement without the political nightmare of having to decide on a proper VM for the web. Since it's "just JavaScript", other browsers will run but be really slow, leading users to blame the browser. At least, I guess that's the idea. It's still a shame they have to resort to such tricks.
Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox's new theme does look a lot like Chrome. The tabs are more rounded and the color scheme is a bit different, but without going into the menus it's hard to tell them apart at first glance sometimes.
Oh yuck, they're bringing back the big wasted void along the top of my page? The fact that Firefox replaces the title-bar with tabs is my favorite feature of the darned thing.
Chrome and current FF have the same "big wasted void" when not maximized. You need something you can grab to drag the whole window about, as opposed to a single tab. It goes away when maximized, and I'd hope Australis will stay the same.
Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox's new theme does look a lot like Chrome. The tabs are more rounded and the color scheme is a bit different, but without going into the menus it's hard to tell them apart at first glance sometimes.
Oh yuck, they're bringing back the big wasted void along the top of my page? The fact that Firefox replaces the title-bar with tabs is my favorite feature of the darned thing.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...
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