[azakai]

The fact is, browsers evolved to render pages. HTML and CSS were invented for that, and JS added to make content more dynamic. So it's not surprising the web has the ability to render documents as a fundamental capability.

NaCl is something new. It isn't meant to render documents. It sandboxes native code.

Both the web and NaCl are great, just for different things.

[pifflesnort]

> Both the web and NaCl are great, just for different things.

Well, now we're getting to the core of it! :)

I agree! I think the web should stick to rendering documents, which it has always done reasonably well, and leave applications to technologies such as NaCL, which people can use to produce the next web browser.

[azakai]

I almost agree. But I don't think the web should stop from improving just because there is stuff like NaCl. If it's easy and straightforward to run code at near-native speeds in JS, and it took just a few months to build the asm.js prototype, then why not?