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stavrostoday at 12:24 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, I don't know, I don't see how you can't pause execution and store the entire interpreter state and DOM somewhere. Maybe it's just that nobody cares enough to go through all the effort?


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mananaysiempretoday at 4:02 PM

Modern pages would also likely be much more touchy about the imperfections of such a mechanism. A lot of “old browsers good” in general seems to be about modern webdev, not modern browsers[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/2001483275546825079