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		kalleboo on July 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save... Does WebAssembly running in a <canvas> tag count as "web"?

fooker on July 28, 2018 [–]

Maybe. However, wasm will eventually tightly integrate with the DOM.

charlchi on July 28, 2018 | [–]

Yeah it seems like people don't understand this. We've had an era of JavaScript dominating web standards. I also don't think people realize this is only the start of wasm...

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