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Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit

10 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2014-01-16 · latest 2026-07-15

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  1. Prior art: WebKit.js, the WebKit rendering engine ported to JS https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js/
    comment by azakai · 2026-07-15 · in Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
  2. It's possible, see https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js/
    comment by niutech · 2024-05-05 · in Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years
  3. For flexbox check out Facebook Yoga ( https://github.com/facebook/yoga ) or Webkit.js ( https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js ).
    comment by niutech · 2024-03-22 · in Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
  4. …( https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml ) and even a full-blown web engine in JS: WebKit.js ( https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js )
    comment by niutech · 2024-03-22 · in Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
  5. You can make PDF client-side by html2canvas or webkit.js ( https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js )
    comment by niutech · 2024-03-22 · in Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
  6. Someone has got WebKit compiled to wasm (no js support though): https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js https://trevorlinton.github.io/ And another has JavaScriptCore compiled to wasm: https://mbbill.github.io/JSC.js/ Combine the two and…
    comment by samwillis · 2022-03-29 · in WebAssembly in my browser desktop environment
  7. Well someone has already got WebKit to run in WASM[1] so hey, maybe it’s not that far off :D [1]: https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js
    comment by leodriesch · 2022-02-16 · in LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly
  8. …browser method though, to just get a bitmap of the screen in Javascript. I've used webkit.js ( https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js ) to implement a client-side save-chart-to-image feature in an web app. Not really sure if I'd…
    comment by AgentME · 2016-01-18 · in Simulating Website Thumbnails Using Iframes
  9. …a minute or two.) If you want to communicate the size of the output, link to the github summary: https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js/blob/master/WebKit...
    comment by kevingadd · 2014-01-16 · in WebKit.js: It's happening for real, via Emscripten
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    WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit
    story by bpierre · 2014-01-16 · 89 comments