Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Dec 2008 19:49 UTC, submitted by BluenoseJake
Google has released an early version of Native Client, a framework designed to run portable x86 binaries inside a web browser - in a sandbox. Native Client also includes technologies that allow for easier communication between JavaScript and Native Client executables, which makes it possible for web applications to leverage native code when it comes to processor intensive tasks. This sounds eerily similar to Microsoft's ActiveX - one of the biggest security failures of the Windows operating system. Google insists, however, that Native Client is much, much more secure.
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2008-08-19
It is, but that's relevant only if existing unmodified C code will run on this new platform. There's a question of libraries (both static and shared), of binary formats, of all sorts of things like that. If my code calls printf, for example, where will it find the function implementation, and how? The story doesn't answer any of those questions.