Browsers can display webpages, and now webpages can display browsers (which can display …).

For a quick demo, I created a Ruby mashup of a different sort (javascript required) — one webpage displaying four embedded bitty browsers, each an independent, functional browser. Each is initialized with a different Ruby feed. Kind of cool, really … and its even possible to have a bitty browser in a bitty browser (though the recursion isn’t infinite).

I was thinking this would be a dead simple way to add a "Recent Posts" sidebar, just slot in a bitty browser with my site’s rss feed. I’ve even got a couple different layouts that work pretty well — but the bitty browsers themselves are, imho, ugly; so for now, those layouts are staying in my development pool.

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