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by yoz-y 2365 days ago
Is it even on the roadmap? WASM does not have access to DOM at all.
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k__ 2365 days ago
I think it is.
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kbumsik 2365 days ago
No they are not. Standard DOM API is not i their roadmap. There is no point of doing it when WASM has to be loaded by JS anyway.

Currently DOM libraries using WASM are implemented by importing JS wrapper functions.

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devit 2365 days ago
The interface types proposal will allow to call DOM APIs from WebAssembly directly [https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/master/p...]

The point of doing it is of course performance.

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k__ 2365 days ago
That's what I thought. Thanks.
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tyingq 2365 days ago
>Standard DOM API is not in their roadmap.

It is...

"To realize the high-level goals of (1) integrating well with the existing Web platform and (2) supporting languages other than C++, WebAssembly needs to be able to...reference DOM and other Web API objects directly from WebAssembly code...call Web APIs (passing primitives or DOM/GC/Web API objects) directly from WebAssembly without calling through JavaScript..."

https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/issues/16

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