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What an amazing UI! I love how the navigation panel pops out and you can position it anywhere you want!

Thank you so much for making this. It also gives me a chance to test my website with WorldWideWeb, which I've been meaning to do for a long time. As soon as I have a dedicated IP, so that HTTP/1.1's Host: header is not required to access it.

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This was all NeXT applications actually, that panel on the left is functionally a menu bar but designed to look and behave differently than the Macintosh menu bar for legal reasons; and sadly the menu pop-out functionality was lost when it was folded into the Mac OS X menu bar.

I wonder how hard it would be to build a proxy of sorts that sat in front of WorldWideWeb and let it speak HTTPS and HTTP/1.1.

That's actually relatively easy. The hard part is interacting with most HTML and JavaScript out there today

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