On 4 May 2017 at 08:55, askoh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks everyone for digging out the various possibilities. It is heartening
> to know the community is healthy and engaging.
>
> Let me summarize the possibilities:
> 1) Recompile Smalltalk VM from C to WebAssembly to run inside a browser at
> near native speed. This means a complete Smalltalk IDE inside a browser
> with
> full access to the browser innards.
>

It's not WebAssembly but Squeak running in a browser is already old news,
thanks to Bert Freudenberg - see
http://try.squeak.org/#url=http://files.squeak.org/5.0/&zip=[Squeak5.0-15113.zip,SqueakV50.sources.zip]
and https://squeak.js.org/. I don't know about interop between that image
running in the browser, and the browser itself.

frank


> 2) Embed Chromium or ChromeHeadless or WebKit inside the Smalltalk IDE.
> Browser access is through the exposed APIs.
> 3) Enhance Scamper, a basic browser written in Smalltalk, to include more
> and more of the capabilities of Chrome say.
>
> All the best,
> Aik-Siong Koh
>
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