Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla Partner to Build Faster Web Browsers

[mmadhankumar]

Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla have partnered to develop a new binary format code called WebAssembly (wasm) that is aimed at increasing the speed and efficiency with which browsers compile, parse, and render Web applications and webpages as compared to text-based JavaScript and asm.js. Engineers from the companies have formed the informal W3C community group, WebAssembly CG, to further development.

Not meant to replace JavaScript or asm.js, the WebAssembly bytecode or machine-level instruction set also allows developers to use a wider set of languages that can be compiled for browsers, and the two will work side by side in future browsers. Binary code is faster to decode than higher level, text-based code, and can also be better compressed. While WebAssembly may be used for parts of the Web applications that usually require compression, JavaScript and asm.js will continue to be used to write lighter elements like UI. Early tests of the binary format code show it is more than 20 percent faster at being decoded as compared to asm.js code.

There has long been a call for a bytecode machine-level instruction set for the Web, and WebAssembly is not the first bytecode system for the Web - with Microsoft's .NET and Oracle's Java other examples of bytecode runtimes. However, it is aimed to be the first widely-accepted bytecode to be directly integrated into the rendering engines of all browsers rather than requiring separate plugins. Google too had tried a hand at providing a way to run code natively in browsers with its Native Client, but this was not adopted by browser makers the world over.

The final aim with WebAssembly is to create a Web standard used by all browsers, both desktop and mobile, that will allow for decoding that's fast enough to enable Web applications to work with performance similar to native applications.


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[iSK]

Good Move By All :tup

 

[Rahulan Raj]

Only Microsoft will benefit !

 

[iSK]

Only Microsoft will benefit !

How :huh

 

[Rahulan Raj]

How :huh

They hv the crap IE & Bing...
Whatever improvements will give them the biggest push than others
:k:k

 

[iSK]

They hv the crap IE & Bing...
Whatever improvements will give them the biggest push than others
:k:k

Hmmmm :k

 

[Imran Shekh]

They hv the crap IE & Bing...
Whatever improvements will give them the biggest push than others
:k:k

I Used Lumia Phone More Than Two Years but I am not getting any problem in IE !
Now I used Microsoft Lumia 640 XL & IE Works Perfectly !
If you are not using Microsoft phones then pls don't post comments like this...
UC Browser Says it's a faster web application in comparison of other web browsers But I am saying that IE is Best on Windows phone then UC !
Thanks...

 

[Rahulan Raj]

Ok buddy... we are talking in general, mostly PC then mobile :
& Android phone user or I-phone user may not agree with you.

I used Nokia Lumia for some time & IE works fine , but never closer to Opera Mini !

 

[Anup Tiwari]

I use opera mini. And I like it. No adv. And good spead

 

[iSK]

I use opera mini. And I like it. No adv. And good spead

Same here bro ...I also use Opera Mini nd Its Very Good )