Comments on: Google’s Crazy Cool Idea: Native Client http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/12/19/googles-crazy-cool-idea-native-client/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: klimzk http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/12/19/googles-crazy-cool-idea-native-client/comment-page-1/#comment-33764 klimzk Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:38:29 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=3624#comment-33764 This native client idea sounds like Google version of ActiveX to me. We know for sure it won't take over task scheduling, resource allocation, garbage collection, security, graphics rendering, device driver communication, theading and soon multi-core support from a modern OS. It'll be a dumbed down NC w/ limited features that is hardly attractive. And what about platform independence? Since it's in a browser, it has to be independent. It'll be like reinventing the JAVA wheel once Google goes there. If Java hasn't been able to keep a client side OS at bay, will Google's idea change that? For some time Google has been touting an "HTML 5 + Javascript" proposal, which is not native at all, to give client side web apps a boost. Funny now they come up with a 180' plan. My take is that they are just throwing both out onto the wall and see which sticks. This native client idea sounds like Google version of ActiveX to me. We know for sure it won’t take over task scheduling, resource allocation, garbage collection, security, graphics rendering, device driver communication, theading and soon multi-core support from a modern OS. It’ll be a dumbed down NC w/ limited features that is hardly attractive.

And what about platform independence? Since it’s in a browser, it has to be independent. It’ll be like reinventing the JAVA wheel once Google goes there. If Java hasn’t been able to keep a client side OS at bay, will Google’s idea change that?

For some time Google has been touting an “HTML 5 + Javascript” proposal, which is not native at all, to give client side web apps a boost. Funny now they come up with a 180′ plan. My take is that they are just throwing both out onto the wall and see which sticks.

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