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robin deatherage

Very good insight in your post. My thought with the whole Internet mess is preserving a means to which we have an escape for if and when the Corporations may take away our freedom for their own Proprietary Software.

After all it is Java and Microsoft who are only allowed to view the inner workings of both WebKit/WebView and IE/Edge's Widget Toolkit Libraries. And interesting enough not even Google Chrome or Chromium can see the inner workings of WebKit's highly customized NCSA Mosaic Canvas GUI Widget Toolkit underneath.

They all only have access to the API Name Spaces and their method names and are using JavaScript to capture all hyperlinks before passing them into the Webkit Rendering Engine to gain control.

Now even with all this knowledge it is my estimate that Web-Assembly will not help the freedom situation at all. And why we need to develop other Web Rendering Engines or a Means to ensure that freedom. Thanks!