It would be great if Nashorn could be used as part of a headless browser but I think that's still a long way off it it ever comes to pass. Browsers have become

It would be great if Nashorn could be used as part of a headless browser but I think that's still a long way off it it ever comes to pass. Browsers have become extremely complex beasts. It is very difficult to simulate one using anything but the original browser code. So my bet is still on phantomjs. I firmly believe that search engines will have to execute JavaScript as well (if they don't already do it). I think this is just Google's attempt to put off the inevitable for a little while longer: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...