>Like the inability of interact with the DOM (or other browser APIs) without calling out to JavaScript. we did it more than 20 years ago :) A Java Applet could

>Like the inability of interact with the DOM (or other browser APIs) without calling out to JavaScript. we did it more than 20 years ago :) A Java Applet could call directly (Java Applet -> Java DOM API and implementing it JNI of our plugin -> native XPCOM API of Mozilla including DOM API) native DOM API of the owning browser window as well as a Java application could embed Mozilla Gecko browser engine and call the native DOM API of that embedded browser: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/dom/ https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/dom/