Yet another RIA browser plugin

[David Brackeen]

This looks pretty damn cool, actually:
http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
If I'm reading correctly it's a secure x86 "virtual machine" running
within the browser. From Google.

If anyone has a few minutes to try it out, let us know what it's like.

[Sisso]

It is very interesting to see quake running in a web browser. But i don´t know if this technology is really usefully. I didn´t understand why write a code in old style today instead to use a more modern language (java or .net) that have plain support in web environment. 

A dosbox java implementation couldn´t have the same result?

I am so much wrong? :P

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Sisso

[Andres Martinez Quijano]

There is already an x86 emulator in Java

http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/

[David Brackeen]

Well it's interesting because it solves he problem of "how to make fast code run in the browser securely and cross-platform" in a new way. Sun, Microsoft and Adobe made JIT compilers, Google makes an x86 emulator. It's huge, though (80MB download). If they got it down to a few megs and put a modern language with it, it could be a great game-development platform. Anyway, something to watch.

[David Brackeen]

I just tried it out. Startup time is nil, and it has a LiveConnect-style connection. No hardware-accelerated graphics though - the Earth demo takes up 100% CPU. Most of the demos are less than 200KB compressed. The earth demo is 744KB compressed. Not bad. I'll definitely be watching this.

[Porfirio]

This seems interessant, was unable to get it to work :(

When a real plugin gets out it might be good