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this is pretty cool but network requests and javascript support would make it even more crazier.

I viewed the html source for this page and pasted it. I was quite impressed. It looks like this is supposed to be a browser engine written in Javascript?

So essentially we would have a sandbox browser within a browser? That would be awesome.




> javascript support would make it even more crazier

There's interesting research being done in the area of meta-circular interpreters. There's techniques for speeding them up; they're not as slow as I'd expect. For example, one interpreter can do type analysis and rewrite chunks of code.


another interesting question would be will webkit.js support single origin policy? basically, what if you could use webkit.js like an iframe but with the ability to execute javascript and manipulate that window.


this is pretty cool but network requests and javascript support would make it even more crazier.

The first thought that comes to mind would be to try to nest the things... a browser inside a browser inside a browser.




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