Mozilla Releases Firefox 52, the First Browser to Support WebAssembly
Found on Bleeping Computers on Saturday, 11 March 2017
In layman’s terms, WebAssembly is a binary format for web pages. Its main advantage is that it allows developers to pack web page resources in a smaller payload.
“We expect that WebAssembly will enable applications that have historically been too complex to run fast in browsers – like immersive 3D video games, computer-aided design, video and image editing, and scientific visualization. We also expect that developers will use WebAssembly to speed up many existing web apps,” said Nick Nguyen, Vice President of Product, at Mozilla.
We also expect lots of malware we all remember from Active-X and Java. We also expect that users won't have control over the webpages they view anymore and will be plastered with annoying advertising. Mozilla will hopefully fail hard with this ridiculous idea; we don't need 3D gaming, CAD or video editing in a browser.