On: Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge

[teacup50]

Meanwhile, platforms that don't even try to wedge their technology into the HTML/CSS/JS universe have better applications.

[pcwalton → teacup50]

We're talking about Web browsers. Technologies that try to integrate into Web browsers specifically but don't have a good compatibility story with the platform haven't had a lot of success.

[mambodog → pcwalton]

Some examples of non-standard extensions which have fallen by the wayside (or failed outright):

    ActiveX
    Java Applets
    Flash
    Silverlight
    VBScript (and other non-JS scripting langs)
    NaCL
    Dart (via a native VM)

[azakai → teacup50]

In some ways they do, but they are also nonstandard, with the downsides that that brings. Neither overall approach is perfect, it's good that we have a combination of both in our field.

[WorldWideWayne → azakai]

Why get hung up on the fact that something is non-standard? Things don't just pop into existence as a standard way of doing things. Some core group of people has to agree on them and then away we go - we have a standard!

That's why everybody should actively use non-standard things that they want to become standards.