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Re: WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit

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Post by [deleted] »

Touche wrote: post #31
captainmuon wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but I imagine a future where an "operating system" is just a OpenGL + Networking + JS API, and you just load in HTML5.exe . The benefit of something like this is that it puts the power back in the hands of the people. You don't have to worry about Google and Apple restricting what you can do, you just load in the HTML5.exe that you know works. Want a new feature? Fork Firefox on GitHub. (I don't want to belittl…

Arbitrarily running x86 machine code fetched over the net? Pass.

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Re: WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit

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Post by frik »

TheMakeA wrote: post #10

I may be the only one excited about this, but I think it's awesome. I imagine a future where a "web browser" is just a WebGL + Networking + JS API, and you just load in HTML5.js. The benefit of something like this is that it puts the power back in the hands of the people. You don't have to worry about Microsoft ignoring standards, you just load in the HTML5.js that you know works. Want a new feature? Fork HTML5.js on…

For games, instead of ChromiumEmbedded I suggest "node-webkit" developed by Intel:

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

Re: WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit

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Post by fidotron »

This will eventually mean anyone engaged in getting data off the web for machine processing (i.e. scraping) is probably looking at needing to run headless browsers and using OCR to get the information out in future. I kind of wonder if Google etc. do this already to extract information based on layout.

Somewhere along the way we need a better way to exchange data between websites before this comes along and sets us back by a couple of decades. The semantic web stuff (sadly) hasn't really worked, but something of that ilk is needed to get us to the future.

Re: WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit

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Post by higherpurpose »

steveklabnik wrote: post #37
captainmuon wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but I imagine a future where an "operating system" is just a OpenGL + Networking + JS API, and you just load in HTML5.exe . The benefit of something like this is that it puts the power back in the hands of the people. You don't have to worry about Google and Apple restricting what you can do, you just load in the HTML5.exe that you know works. Want a new feature? Fork Firefox on GitHub. (I don't want to belittl…

I'm posting this comment from a ChromeBook Pixel... I think this future is mega interesting, and I hope it comes to pass.

Isn't that sort of what Google did with ChromeOS inside Windows 8?

Re: WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit

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Post by 0x0 »

TheMakeA wrote: post #10

I may be the only one excited about this, but I think it's awesome. I imagine a future where a "web browser" is just a WebGL + Networking + JS API, and you just load in HTML5.js. The benefit of something like this is that it puts the power back in the hands of the people. You don't have to worry about Microsoft ignoring standards, you just load in the HTML5.js that you know works. Want a new feature? Fork HTML5.js on…

Leaving HTML5 rendering implementation up to each website, while only providing a "dumb" 2d or 3d pipeline (webgl), would make for a terrible non-native browsing experience. No native font rendering, no right-clicking text selection to choose from a dozen OS-provided services, no user-based keyboard shortcuts in text fields like this comment field, and so on.

It would also make it much more difficult to peek at the source code for web pages since there wouldn't be a working DOM inspector in your browser.

Re: WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit

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Post by egeozcan »

devongovett wrote: post #8
rubiquity wrote: post #2

I remember this being an April Fools' Day joke[0] in 2012. Interesting to see it coming alive. I imagine it will be a pretty large file size so it might not be practical for a little bit longer, especially for mobile devices. 0 - http://badassjs.com/post/20294238453/webkit-js-yes-it-has-fi...

Yup, author of that post here. I was pretty surprised to see the vaporware of 2 years ago come alive this morning. http://badassjs.com/post/73526882798/webkit-js-its-happening...

I can't tell you how much I was disappointed to realize that it was a joke =)

Re: WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit

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Post by geon »

Touche wrote: post #31
captainmuon wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but I imagine a future where an "operating system" is just a OpenGL + Networking + JS API, and you just load in HTML5.exe . The benefit of something like this is that it puts the power back in the hands of the people. You don't have to worry about Google and Apple restricting what you can do, you just load in the HTML5.exe that you know works. Want a new feature? Fork Firefox on GitHub. (I don't want to belittl…

Arbitrarily running x86 machine code fetched over the net? Pass.

No fan of NaCl?
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