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coldtea on May 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly

>I remember the horrible Java applets and I am thankful that I pretty much never encounter any of them these days.)

Yeah, yay for progress and horrible Electron apps..

eriknstr on May 31, 2017 [–]

Electron apps are not really relevant when talking about Java applets. Java applets embed in the browser, so compare Java applets with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and WebAssembly.

I much prefer the latter (HTML5 + CSS3 + JS + WebAsm).

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