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Surely that is a noble goal!

But isn't it a case of XKCD 927? https://xkcd.com/927/

I.e. I would say the probability is zero that because WASM exists other existing complexity of browsers will be removed.

Because the web is so vast, if you once add a feature to browsers you can never remove it because that would break an unknown amount of websites, or even intranet sites.

So now we have wasm + N other subsystems, so N+1, and the security of N+1 systems is less than that of N.



We break/deprecate the web all the time. Web backwards compatibility is a myth, it's just that wo don't get any calls from the 90s complaining that their dogs website broke.


How long have you been using the Web?

ActiveX? DYNSRC? Frames? Flash? How about Gopher support? Capabilities being removed is a time-honored tradition in the browser world.




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