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pcwalton on May 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge

We're talking about Web browsers. Technologies that try to integrate into Web browsers specifically but don't have a good compatibility story with the platform haven't had a lot of success.

mambodog on May 7, 2015 [–]

Some examples of non-standard extensions which have fallen by the wayside (or failed outright):

    ActiveX
    Java Applets
    Flash
    Silverlight
    VBScript (and other non-JS scripting langs)
    NaCL
    Dart (via a native VM)

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