JoWa
March 16, 2016, 5:52am
#1
WebAssembly, “an experimental efficient low-level programming language for in-browser client-side scripting”, is making progress, and is now available in Chrome Dev/Canary and Firefox Nightly. Microsoft has also announced WebAssembly in Edge. It is also in development in WebKit.
Links:
https://webassembly.github.io/
WebAssembly (sometimes abbreviated Wasm) defines a portable binary-code format and a corresponding text format for executable programs as well as software interfaces for facilitating interactions between such programs and their host environment.
The main goal of WebAssembly is to enable high-performance applications on web pages, "but it does not make any Web-specific assumptions or provide Web-specific features, so it can be employed in other environments as well." It is an open standard and ...
WebAssembly is an emerging standard whose goal is to define a safe, portable, size- and load-time efficient binary compiler target which offers near-native performance—a virtual CPU for the Web. WebAssembly ...
Est. reading time: 5 minutes
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/03/15/previewing-webassembly-experiments/ https://webkit.org/status/#specification-webassembly
Thank you. That’s a very interesting read and development.
JoWa
June 8, 2016, 6:51pm
#3
In Chrome 51 and Opera 38 (V8 5.1 ), WebAssembly is available and can be enabled: chrome://flags/#enable-webassembly
JoWa
October 31, 2016, 3:06pm
#4
JoWa
November 1, 2016, 4:15pm
#5
JoWa
February 6, 2017, 7:59pm
#6
WebAssembly is enabled by default in Chrome 57.
V8 Release 5.7
JoWa
March 1, 2017, 5:26am
#7
JoWa
May 31, 2017, 4:42am
#8
WebAssembly will replace Portable Native Client in Chromium.
Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly!
JoWa
November 13, 2017, 4:24pm
#9
JoWa
June 21, 2019, 2:32am
#10
Nice to see WebAssembly being used for something useful.
WebAssembly brings Google Earth to more browsers
https://earth.google.com/web/?beta=1
Native Client is replaced with WebAssembly.
Known issues
[]Due to its lack of threading support in WASM, Firefox is notably slower than Chrome. ]KML loading won’t work on Firefox.
Use Google Earth with WebAssembly