Web Run-Time Environment

WRTE is a microkernel-like environment to run untrusted applications in your browser.

Kernel

The kernel provides following services to facilitate apps:

Processes

Untrusted apps run in iframe-sandbox + webworker jail limited as far as the browser allows. Kernel provides methods to spawn, manage and kill processes.

Inter-Process Communication mechanism allows exchanging messages between processes and processes and kernel. Messages can be sent in point-2-point manner or over two-way channels providing context and ordering.

VFS

Virtual File-System uses two previous facilities to build hierarchical, dynamic and persistent data access layer. Kernel provides mapping of paths to actual process handlers providing data content.

Hierarchy

WRTE paths consist of a volume name and path. i.e. volume:foo/bar

Volumes are mapped to programmatic handlers processing messages for a given path. Messages like READ, SEEK, INFO, etc.

There is also an assign table, mapping parts of a path to another path. For example con: is usually an assign to internal:console.

internal:

There are few handlers provided by the kernel itself, not by externally launched processes. These are required to bootstrap the system and to give managed access to browser features such as DOM, not available to worker tasks in processes. These are all available at internal: volume. Be careful not to over-assign internal: paths, as it will probably make your system inoperative.