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Google Is Grooming Chrome As a Game Platform

Posted by timothy on from the ok-you'll-need-these-special-dice dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Conceivably Tech: "On Friday I noticed that Google is heavily pushing New Game, a game developer conference that is focused on HTML5-based gaming content — and, of course, content that runs in web browsers. The fact that such an event already exists and that there is game content being developed in HTML5, is quite stunning by itself. However, Google also noted that a sandboxed native client (NaCl) with 3D (in addition to 2D) will be available in Chrome soon, which will allow the browser to connect to traditional C and C++ code via its integrated Pepper API."

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  1. The very sadness of it all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know Commander Taco used to like games, and now he's not alive to see this. Very sad.

    1. Re:The very sadness of it all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      On the bright side, at least he outlived Jobs by 24 hours.

  2. Does anyone by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does anyone else see this as a giant security hole? As in, various schemes like this have been tried since the days of ActiveX, and the only reason ActiveX has the worst reputation is because it's the only one that gained widespread use?

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  3. Salty Sand by FrankDrebin · · Score: 5, Funny

    sandboxed native client (NaCl)

    In other words, a saltbox.

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    Anybody want a peanut?
  4. Re:The very stupidity of it all by Goaway · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, Google wants to introduce LLVM bytecode, which will run on both x86 and ARM. They're making an OS for ARM processors, you know, they are aware it exists.

    x86 is just the first step on the way.

  5. Re:Cats shit in sandboxes all the time. by ninetyninebottles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're [sandboxes] a theoretical concept that have never worked well in the real world. They've been tried time and time and time and time again. They aren't a new concept, but nobody ever seems able to implement them properly, even when some of the biggest names in the field are involved, and even when they have nearly unlimited resources and people to throw at the problem.

    Well, except Apple with iOS, Google with Android, the NSA with their SELinux improvements, a crap-ton of people who worked on and use TrustedBSD, Bitfrost in the OLPC, and every security researcher for the last 20 years who has relied heavily on VMs. But yeah aside from those and probably a bunch more I don't know about, no one has successfully implemented sandboxes.

    Maybe what you meant to say was that Microsoft hasn't been able to implement them properly.