Comment by flohofwoe
3 days ago
Yes, but think of DCC applications like Figma which might run into the 4 GB restriction with large data sets, not regular websites which run a couple of WebGL demos written in C.
...also WASM is starting to become popular outside the browser where requirements might be very different from running stuff in webpages.
Let figma ask me for explicit permission first, then, as opposed to making Memory64 support implicitly available.
...what's different than running any other application that uses more than 4 GB RAM on your computer, and why exactly 4 GB and not any other number? You can easily check the per-page memory footprint in Chrome's task manager and decide not to use such 'memory hogs'.
Apps don't suddenly start running just from clicking a link, the relationship with websites is inherently adversarial while the relationship with apps is typically not