{"id":23538,"date":"2016-03-15T12:32:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/angrybots-demo-gives-developers-early-preview-of-webassembly-experiments-in-microsoft-edge"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:40:52","slug":"angrybots-demo-gives-developers-early-preview-of-webassembly-experiments-in-microsoft-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/angrybots-demo-gives-developers-early-preview-of-webassembly-experiments-in-microsoft-edge","title":{"rendered":"AngryBots demo gives developers early preview of WebAssembly experiments in Microsoft Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hSeB9I_mK6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Developers can now see an early preview of experimental WebAssembly support in an internal Microsoft Edge build with the<a href=\"http:\/\/webassembly.github.io\/demo\"> AngryBots<\/a> demo, alongside similar previews for<a href=\"https:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2016\/03\/a-webassembly-milestone\"> Firefox<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/v8project.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/experimental-support-for-webassembly.html\">Chrome<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/webassembly.github.io\/\">WebAssembly<\/a> is a new, portable, size and load-time-efficient binary format suitable for compiling to the Web.<\/p>\n<p>In the video above, a demo running in Microsoft Edge uses the preliminary WebAssembly support in the Chakra engine. The demo starts up significantly faster than just using asm.js, as the WebAssembly binaries have a smaller file size and parse more quickly than plain JavaScript, which needs to be parsed in the asm.js case.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about WebAssembly on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/msedgedev\/2016\/03\/15\/previewing-webassembly-experiments\/\">Microsoft Edge Dev Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/firehose\/2016\/03\/15\/angrybots-demo-gives-developers-early-preview-of-webassembly-experiments-in-microsoft-edge\/\">http:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/firehose\/2016\/03\/15\/angrybots-dem...soft-edge\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers can now see an early preview of experimental WebAssembly support in an internal Microsoft Edge build with the AngryBots demo, alongside similar previews for Firefox and Chrome. WebAssembly is a new, portable, size and load-time-efficient binary format suitable for compiling to the Web. In the video above, a demo running in Microsoft Edge uses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62397,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538\/revisions\/62397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}