i was sitting at a google dev day once, and they were showing off all the cool new stuff you can do with canvas.
the crowd was cheering. google was the rockstar in the house.
my friend sitting next to me turns to me and says:
"great, now we can do what flash could 10 years ago".
that was the same year when the google munich chrome lead was bashing the nacl presenter in a private conversation for being backwards. he "couldn't comprehend it at all" "the cloud should be doing all the work".
yeah no shit, with all the junk layers we're putting on top of one another there's no way the clients can actually compute things themselves.
Interesting, I've never heard that criticism of NaCl before. I guess it makes some sense if you're engineering toward a "thin client" model with cheap, minimalist hardware.
The main concern about NaCl though, is that it's not portable, it's just Google's version of ActiveX.
So I guess he could have just said "great, now we can do what ActiveX could 10 years ago."
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same here, haswell laptop.
i was sitting at a google dev day once, and they were showing off all the cool new stuff you can do with canvas.
the crowd was cheering. google was the rockstar in the house.
my friend sitting next to me turns to me and says:
"great, now we can do what flash could 10 years ago".
that was the same year when the google munich chrome lead was bashing the nacl presenter in a private conversation for being backwards. he "couldn't comprehend it at all" "the cloud should be doing all the work".
yeah no shit, with all the junk layers we're putting on top of one another there's no way the clients can actually compute things themselves.
Interesting, I've never heard that criticism of NaCl before. I guess it makes some sense if you're engineering toward a "thin client" model with cheap, minimalist hardware.
The main concern about NaCl though, is that it's not portable, it's just Google's version of ActiveX.
So I guess he could have just said "great, now we can do what ActiveX could 10 years ago."
there are noticeably less dependencies to the underlying OS and a stricter security model. pnacl even goes further with being architecture neutral.
sometimes the inner qualities of a system are those that matter.