Today, NaCl is remembered as a bold experiment that proved the web could handle heavy applications, paving the way for the modern "standard" (WebAssembly) that we use for everything from online gaming to browser-based video editing today.
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While Google has largely phased it out in favor of WebAssembly, it remains a critical component for users trying to access older (like Dahua or Amcrest) that require specific plugins to display live video. Common Uses & Troubleshooting Today, NaCl is remembered as a bold experiment
: Isolate potentially dangerous native code from the rest of the user's system. The Deprecation Timeline nacl-web-plug-in
A simple example of embedding a NaCl plugin in an HTML page:
NaCl remained almost exclusively a feature of Google Chrome. Competitors like Mozilla and Microsoft preferred alternative approaches, such as asm.js and eventually WebAssembly .