How about using ordinary machine code and making the browser behave like VMWare? Such an approach would be good for both speed and safety, no? Yeah, that would

How about using ordinary machine code and making the browser behave like VMWare? Such an approach would be good for both speed and safety, no? Yeah, that would require webapp authors to make separate binaries for different architectures, but if they're writing some monstrosity like a web version of Photoshop, they want that level of control anyway! Meanwhile the rest of us can keep on using HTML and hop off the standards treadmill.