Pushing The Limits Of The Modern Browser

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  • daedalOS

    Desktop environment in the browser

    This last month has been another fun experience in pushing the limits of browsers. As I continue to work on my desktop environment in the browser I keep finding new ideas for features to add to make it more useful.

  • WASM-ImageMagick

    Webassembly compilation of https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick & samples

    I've gone with ImageMagick ported to WebAssembly to do basically the exact same things as with FFMpeg, but with a tiny bit less locking up. In the future I would like to get these things running in multithreaded Web Workers as well as have the ability to easily configure transcode settings to whatever is desired instead of the defaults as it is now.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • ffmpeg.wasm

    FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly

    For this I have integrated FFMpeg in WebAssembly form and added it to the terminal as a cli command and to the right click context menus of relevant file types. An example would be that I could now convert mp4 into mkv. A large downside of the approach I have had to do in order to avoid SharedArrayBuffer, is that it runs on the main thread and basically locks up everything except the wallpaper until it's done. But I hope to eventually solve this as they make improvements to the browsers ability to mitigate Spectre.

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