what-can-we-do-in-the-browser

Before history

• Java Applet
• ActiveX
• Flash
• Microsoft Silverlight

WebAssembly

• asm.js: https://github.com/asm-js
• WebAssembly: https://webassembly.org/
• v86: https://github.com/copy/v86
• Infinite Mac: https://infinitemac.org/
• Unity:
• ffmpeg.wasm: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
• WebContainers: https://webcontainers.io/

Fancy APIs

• HTTP:
  • HTTP/0.9: The one-line protocol
  • HTTP/1.0: Building extensibility, RFC 1945(1996)
  • HTTP/1.1: The standardized protocol, RFC 2068(1997), RFC 2616(1999), RFC 7230 - RFC 7235(2014)
  • SPDY
  • HTTP/2: A protocol for greater performance, RFC 7540(2015)
  • HTTP/3: HTTP over QUIC, RFC 9114, 2022
• WebGL(1.0, 2011)
• WebGPU: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb
• Web Workers
• WebAssembly
• SharedArrayBuffer

Security

• UAParser.js: https://www.hackread.com/cisa-trojanized-javascript-library-npm-package/

Fancy Works

• Windows 98: https://98.js.org/
• Windows 11: https://wintest.andrewstech.me/
• macOS: https://macos-web.app/