Building a Better Web Browser - James Mickens - Harvard CS Colloquium 2015

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it whenever people discuss rebuilding the web platform or what a better browser architecture could look like.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Paul Irish

Topic

browser architecture

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• James Mickens gave an interesting talk on what we could do to build a better browser: [VIDEO] I'm hoping that WebAssembly might be a route towards allowing something like this to happen. If an alternative to HTML/CSS/JS could be developed in WebAssembly, then we could …

• > Doesn't every freaking mainstream technology suck? I regularly come across rants from significant developers regarding this issue. There probably is no way to prevent this from happening. Because worse is unfortunately better. Web technology is fundamentally different in that you have a big standards …

• James Mickens at Microsoft Research presents Atlantis, which I definitely think this still the most forward-looking browser architecture out there: [VIDEO] Ideas from this effort are going to be trickling into browsers for years to come. For example, if you squint a bit, you might …