There are plenty of popular applications that are available across multiple platforms: Microsoft Office runs on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. And the open source LibreOffice runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows, But it’s generally up to the developers of those apps to decide what platforms they’ll support… because it takes work to compile software […]
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Google releases Chrome 57 with WebAssembly (and more)
This week Mozilla released a version of the Firefox web browser with support for WebAssembly. Now Google has released a stable version of its Chrome browser that also supports the new web standard. WebAssembly is a set of tools that lets developers create web apps that run at near-native speeds. That means they can create […]
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Firefox 52 gains WebAssembly support: Web apps at near-native speeds
The latest version of the Firefox web browser includes a number of updates, such as support for multi-process architecture on touchscreen computers running Windows 10 and warnings when you’re visiting insecure pages with a login form. But the biggest new feature in Firefox 52 may be support for WebAssembly, a new standard designed to let web […]