> I fail to see how it being exposed to the javascript running on the page or not makes a meaningful difference to the user. Are we expecting the average user to interact with the page via the developer console or something?
No, but I'm expecting the average user to be able to enjoy an open ecosystem. Such as bookmarklet, addons, client side widgets, electron apps, WASM plugins, and all the wonderful things we can't yet think of now.
Instead, we will have one more walled garden.
And just like that, piece by piece, the next step in the IT revolution will be more and more close. Because that's the plan, that's what they want. Something the computer runs, but has no control over.
>No, but I'm expecting the average user to be able to enjoy an open ecosystem. Such as bookmarklet, addons, client side widgets, electron apps, WASM plugins, and all the wonderful things we can't yet think of now.
But there's still webgl and <canvas>. I'm failing to see what type of use cases we're missing out on here, because javascript access is missing.
No, but I'm expecting the average user to be able to enjoy an open ecosystem. Such as bookmarklet, addons, client side widgets, electron apps, WASM plugins, and all the wonderful things we can't yet think of now.
Instead, we will have one more walled garden.
And just like that, piece by piece, the next step in the IT revolution will be more and more close. Because that's the plan, that's what they want. Something the computer runs, but has no control over.