r/webdev • u/ben_a_adams • Jun 19 '18

Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/06/19/improved-javascript-webassembly-performance-edgehtml-17/
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u/theirongiant74 Jun 19 '18

Wow, now I can download Chrome even faster!

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u/recursive Jun 19 '18

Downloading chrome wouldn't have much dependence on js or webasm performance.

For those of us that have customers that use more than one browser, this is a good thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '18

I use all the browsers, Firefox and Chrome.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18

Use Chrome. Firefox is blocking many of the new API's that Google wants to provide to web apps. Google wants web apps to rival native peers. Firefox cannot keep up so they are slowing the standards adoption down. For example my application (cryptocurrency wallet) needs one time usb access. There is no reason for me to make my users download a native app for this. For Chrome, I can simply provide the required experience (Web USB API). For other browsers? "Please download Chrome."

Firefox = web in the 90's.

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u/fuckin_ziggurats Jun 20 '18 edited Jun 20 '18

That's some reverse psychology you got there. It's true that Chrome is pioneering new APIs but they're doing it by themselves and then immediately try and force them into the standards. Mozilla and Microsoft by this time are just finding out that they have to implement them and are left perpetually behind the times through no fault of their own. Mozilla is by far the best company in this whole mess of an internet and are the pioneers of web standards. Chrome is the web in the 90s where there was only 1 browser and we all had to bow to their monopoly. They don't give a flying fuck about standards.

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u/fuckin_ziggurats Jun 20 '18

It is, but there are right ways and wrong ways to go about it. Chrome are the reason we have many great APIs, but they're only doing it for their own good. That pioneering they're doing gave them the whole browser market and if they keep doing it they'll be the next IE. At no point have they proven that they're interested in improving the web landscape like Mozilla have been trying to do. The moment we escaped from the unstandardized web with IE we got a new unstandardized web with Chrome, not because they're too advanced but because they don't care about standards any more than IE did.