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I get the point a minimal browser and WASM, but Java bytecode ?! Why not Python bytecode ? Seems unreasonable to me to add any specific bytecode support. By layout rules you mean get rid of CSS ? Sounds also unreasonable IMHO.

And no WebAudio and Canvas couldn't be implemented in client WASM without big security implication. If by module you mean inside the browser, them, what is the point of WASM here ?

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What WebAudio needs to provide is only means to get or push buffers from/to audio devices and run code in high priority thread. There is no need for browser to provide implementation of low-pass filters, audio proccessing graphs and similar primitives.

Honestly, even WASM makes it not very minimal in my book. A minimal browser should be HTML and perhaps a subset of CSS, that's it.

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