Comment by pjmlp

Comment by pjmlp a year ago

Not at all, had Mozilla adopted PNaCL instead of coming up with asm.js, and WebAssembly would never come up, delaying everything for a decade.

Here is a memory refresher from 2011,

"Mozilla's Rejection of NativeClient Hurts the Open Web"

https://chadaustin.me/2011/01/mozillas-rejection-of-nativecl...

the_why_of_y a year ago

The argument against NaCL was that it was the browser API, PPAPI, was poorly documented and exposing implementation details of Blink/Chromium and thus very difficult to implement in a non-Chromium browser, so it's no surprise that Mozilla, Apple, and Opera were unenthused.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729481#c83

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Ygg2 a year ago

Mozilla wasn't the only one with problem with PNaCl. They were definitely most opposed to it, but even Opera was strongly against it (granted it was around 2011).

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