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		admax88q on March 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers Could also just bring back applets. Its what the web is doing already, slowly reinventing applets but worse.

shadowgovt on March 18, 2020 [–]

I don't think I'd call it worse. The original implementation treated the DOM as, at most, an undesired wrapper environment and mandated Java as its implementation architecture. I think wasm's approach improves on both those issues.

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