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A browser like a docker container? #91

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ROBERT-MCDOWELL opened this issue Sep 13, 2017 · 2 comments
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A browser like a docker container? #91

ROBERT-MCDOWELL opened this issue Sep 13, 2017 · 2 comments

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@ROBERT-MCDOWELL
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ROBERT-MCDOWELL commented Sep 13, 2017

Maybe the near future of internet can be a docker container browser like,
allowing any kind of application, language or else to run natively on your computer without
to take care of compatibility, restrictions, standards and so on.
if anyone has more informations about it please post here thanks.
an intersting approach
https://hub.docker.com/r/toschneck/nativefier/
https://github.com/docker

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FSMaxB commented Sep 13, 2017

nativefier does the exact opposite of what you described. It takes a web application and bundles it as a Desktop app. But it still remains a Web Application.

Also what you describe won't ever be a good idea because you can't have native code in the Web since it won't be portable to other platforms. Then it might work on x86_64 Windows for example, but not on Mac/Linux/Smartphones etc.

The new "native" format for the Web is called WebAssembly. It is compiled to native code by the browser.

And you can't just ignore standards, because just running code isn't enough, you still need a way to display something, get input somehow and play audio etc. You need standards for that.

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ROBERT-MCDOWELL commented Sep 13, 2017

well, maybe ignoring the standards not too much, but for sure the links I provided is not
to show an example of the concept, but just an idea of how we can be inspired from the opposite.
"you can't have native code in the Web since it won't be portable to other platforms. Then it might work on x86_64 Windows for example, but not on Mac/Linux/Smartphones etc."
well, a docker concept can be a start.... you agree or not. The game here is how to get out from any kind of standards and run on the network whatever we want transparently.

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