Moving toward Web standards reduces the inconvenience and security problems of browser plugins. But the new Hangouts software still uses Google's own Native Client plugin. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

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One of the roadblocks to more powerful Web apps is the inability of those apps to harness a local machine’s computational power. Native Client (NaCl), now integrated into the next Chrome beta release, ...

The Ruby programming language runtime has been ported to Google’s Native Client (NaCl) framework. The port, which was implemented by Google, will make it possible for NaCl-enabled Web browsers to ...