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		mseebach on May 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tim O'Reilly: Google Bets Big on HTML 5 I'm wondering if it'd be practical to port Gecko or WebKit to Silverlight or Flex, so a site could simply launch itself in an embedded browser, transparently from inside IE?

snprbob86 on May 27, 2009 [–]

While a very interesting idea, I don't think it would be practical. Both platforms have some very strict sandbox regulations which would make it difficult.

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