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I've WASM'ed my Compose/Web <https://chrishatton.org|test-card homepage>.  It's not much, but it's all WASM (GC flag enablement required) :slightly_smiling_face: More soon...

Learnings:
• `wasmBrowserDistribution` task doesn't look ready, or I couldn't figure out how to use it.  I ended up using the `wasmBrowserWebpack` task to generate the hosted output.
• This creates `mjs` files which aren't recognised by nginx's default configuration.  It was necessary to add `mjs` to the `javascript/application` MIME type.

• The Chinese font at the bottom of the page is the biggest file @ almost 10MB :man-facepalming: 
• The homepage wasm itself is only 2.5MB down from 5.6MB thanks to `binaryen` compression :slightly_smiling_face: 

Love that emoji :smiling_face_with_3_hearts: animation! Could you make your server support compression? My browser says it's downloading a whopping 23.9 MB in total... :upside_down_face:

I should choose a plainer glyph or ditch the Chinese writing, I just wanted to prove it could render.  Testing out capabilities.

Yeah, I learned about that Lottie thing last time when you were setting up that page. Seemingly still no compression arriving here. :thinking_face:

Yes, turns out gzip requires switching on per MIME-type.
After some server-wrangling the data transferred is around halved to a 'mere' 13MB :upside_down_face:

:+1: So that worked to some extent. Half of the size is just that Japanese font...

Yes, I'll keep it since the page is serving its purpose to highlight the do's and don'ts for a Native Mobile / Desktop guy like me who's fancying WASM as a way to branch out onto Web after all these years.

I have another homepage in mind to replace this test-card later.
Next; I wonder if shaders are supported via WebGL :thinking_face:

Thanks! Registered :slightly_smiling_face: