HTML Platform

[Mark Wieder]

On 5/5/20 4:47 PM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote:

>   I don't use HTML deployment myself, but thought I would mention that there
> has been some emscripten activity in GitHub lately. Looks like WebAssembly
> (WASM) support is being added. You can see the commits here:
> 
> https://github.com/livecodeian/livecode/commits/feature-emscripten-llvm
> 
> And here is the specific commit with the README:
> 
> https://github.com/livecodeian/livecode/commit/11dd134996f441abbbc802dba64c760ec800a10e
> 

Yeah, I saw the github posts come flying by, and that's a promising 
feature, but it doesn't address the limitations and broken features of 
the current html implementation. Yet, at any rate. Also, it remains to 
be seen how much bloat this adds to deployed web apps.

These may be of interest:
https://floooh.github.io/2017/06/09/webassembly-demystified.html
<https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/07/memory-in-webassembly-and-why-its-safer-than-you-think/>

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com