Native Client, an obscure security project at Google, is about to get much more important as the foundation for Chrome, CNET has learned.
Native Client--NaCl for short--got its start as a part of Chrome as a way to run software modules downloaded over the Net safely and quickly. With the move, though, the tables will turn, and Chrome will itself become a NaCl module.
"We want to move more and more of Chrome to Native Client," Linus Upson, vice president of engineering for the Chrome team, said in an interview at the Google I/O show here. "Over time we want to move the entire browser in Native Client."
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20062115-264.html#ixzz1MArOqaWL
Native Client--NaCl for short--got its start as a part of Chrome as a way to run software modules downloaded over the Net safely and quickly. With the move, though, the tables will turn, and Chrome will itself become a NaCl module.
"We want to move more and more of Chrome to Native Client," Linus Upson, vice president of engineering for the Chrome team, said in an interview at the Google I/O show here. "Over time we want to move the entire browser in Native Client."
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20062115-264.html#ixzz1MArOqaWL