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WebAssembly doesn't change this. There's nothing preventing people from doing this with javascript (plain or asm.js flavored) and canvas/webGL, and yet no one does. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.


Try to disable JavaScript and see how much of the modern Web you are able to enjoy, even on sites which are supposed to display static text.


So? My point is that most who relies on client-side code to render apps, does so in a way that integrates nicely with the browser. Most JS apps render html, they don't draw to a canvas. They could do that, but it would break a lot of functionality that people expect for a program that runs in a browser. This won't change with webasm. It will just make such pages load (and maybe perform) faster.


The point is that wasm doesn't change this; wasm won't make it 'worse'.




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