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Anyone ever compile a browser with emscripten to wasm? So that you could try out a new browser without having to download and install it? I think that could be genuinely useful in instances like this (try-before-you-buy-browser-in-your-browser), instead of just a recursive curiosity.

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Please bring a new step of “The birth and death of JavaScript” [1] to the real world (but still not the nuclear war part of it, thanks).

[1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

You probably can't try out a browser in the browser, because of the CORS rules.

You could if the host domain acted as a VPN/proxy

the cloudpilotemu project can use this host browser as a proxy thing so you can sync your emulated (in the browser) to your PC as well as give the emulator internet access, likely one way to have a browser in a browser.

I didn't try it out, though, i just read it in the documentation.

There is WebKit browser in browser: https://trevorlinton.github.io/

That's not a browser (even if you renamed it to "webkit browser"), and not working

Technically it is a web browser engine (WebKit) ported to JS and it works in the latest Firefox (shows a tiger).

It's possible, see https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js/

This was already asked the last time[1], but I think it would miss the point of Dillo.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853053

In some ways it would miss the main use of dillo, but at the same time if you were going to embed a browser like that surely dillo is a great option precisely because of how light it is.

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