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If you are kidding (I just can't decide), be aware that Microsoft killed Netscape at the 90's because Netscape was starting to sell exactly that VM.

When Netscape became Mozilla, it shipped with XUL runner, that is exactly that, but nobody used it.

Firefox OS is that, again, sold for smartphones.

If they come out with a good VM (measured by the languages it can run), and a good DOM-like organization, it will happen in no time. But if we get another XUL, it just won't happen.



| When Netscape became Mozilla, it shipped with XUL runner, that is exactly that, but nobody used it.

i would hazard to disagree with that statement - the company i was working for at the time shipped thousands of devices our with the XUL runner, and i wrote several XPCOM objects to support the custom hardware we were shipping at the time.

i still miss some of the niceties that came from that.


How is XUL similar to Web Assembly at all?


XUL aimed to replace the desktop with web applications, Web Assembly may do just that.

But you are right in that there's no similarity in structure at all.


XPCOM isn't sandboxed, is it?




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