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Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 6:27 AM UTC

BubRoss wrote: post #153

pjmlp wrote: post #148

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Survivor of the anti-PNaCL, Java and Flash crusade I guess.

To be clear, because you have seen other VMs, you are desperate to spread complete misinformation and lies about webasm? Funneling your own frustrations into lying and spreading false information on the internet is not something a reasonable, emotionally healthy person does. Think about all the other people that do that in other areas of discussion. Those are your peers when you do this.

I am not desperate at all, it is no different than WebAssembly advocates spreading false information about its "safety" or novelty.

In fact I rejoice that WebAssembly, despite all the attempts to be presented as safe and novel, is becoming the mechanism to bring back to life all the plugins that where killed in name of WebAssembly.

I will give 5 years time for WebGL/WebGPU + WebAssembly to rule the majority of multimedia driven websites, with a new generation of Flash like tooling.

Then you call tell the world how much safer and novel WebAssembly is.

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 6:28 AM UTC

cromwellian wrote: post #156

pjmlp wrote: post #9

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It was already possible in 2011, but alas politics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQiUP2Hd60Y https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/

What about 2010 without flash? We ported the Java version of Quake2 using GWT in 2010 https://youtu.be/aW--Wlf9EFs

Even better.

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by megamindbrian2 » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 3:43 AM UTC

I've picked up working on this if anyone needs any help configuring.

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by megamindbrian2 » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 3:43 AM UTC

benjojo12 wrote: post #21

EDIT: This appears to have died, now that the content servers for quakejs have died. My servers are no longer starting anymore :(. For those reading on later, there was peak of 10 on both servers just before it went down ioq3 1.36_GIT_4f7d7bf-2014-02-01 emscripten- Feb 23 2014 ----- FS_Startup ----- Error: Failed to download and parse manifest, Couldn't load http://content.quakejs.com/assets/manifest.json. Status: 50…

Still works for me.

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by codethief » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

yipbub wrote: post #127

codethief wrote: post #112

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Even on my Thinkpad W510 from 2010(!) it runs very smoothly – incredible. If only it were as good security-wise… (no TLS?!)

What are the threats from not having TLS? There's no information to protect here is there?

There is always something to protect – in this case, your browser and your system. How about zero-days in WebAssembly that a man in the middle might exploit?