Chrome To Deprecate ‘PNaCl,’ Embrace New ‘WebAssembly’ Standard

[Lucian Armasu]

Google announced that Portable Native Client (PNaCl) technology will be deprecated in Chrome in the first quarter of 2018. The company will focus its efforts on supporting the new web standard and PNaCl alternative, called "WebAssembly."

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[spdragoo]

Was I the only one that was thinking at first this might somehow be chemistry related (since NaCl = Sodium Chloride = Table salt)?

 

[Guest]

Was I the only one that was thinking at first this might somehow be chemistry related (since NaCl = Sodium Chloride = Table salt)?

It was so you can add flavor to your website.

Another technology that if learned is now completely useless. The older I get the more disgusted I get with all the wasted energy.

 

[ammaross]

Was I the only one that was thinking at first this might somehow be chemistry related (since NaCl = Sodium Chloride = Table salt)?

You're not wrong. They have fun with chemistry. Even the "chromium" project in itself.

"NaCl denotes sodium chloride, common table salt; as a pun, the name of pepper was also used. Pepper API is a cross-platform, open-source API for creating Native Client modules."

 

[InvalidError]

I wonder how many companies are going to be salty about having to re-design their websites, plugins, browser-based apps, etc. yet again for portability and support beyond early 2018.

 

[ammaross]

I wonder how many companies are going to be salty about having to re-design their websites, plugins, browser-based apps, etc. yet again for portability and support beyond early 2018.

About as many as bothered updating their Java-based code to run on something newer than Java 1.7. Actually, a lot less since NaCl wasn't widely used.

 

[spdragoo]

I wonder how many companies are going to be salty about having to re-design their websites, plugins, browser-based apps, etc. yet again for portability and support beyond early 2018.

Maybe they can claim they're "healthier" since they're "lower sodium", LOL