>We need to get away from this whole "The browser is a poor man's operating system" model anyway. Let the browser do a great job of browsing hypermedia and then

>We need to get away from this whole "The browser is a poor man's operating system" model anyway. Let the browser do a great job of browsing hypermedia and then hand off to specialized programs when we want to do something outside that paradigm. While I don't believe the Web should be an OS. There absolutely needs to be vendor neutral, hardware/system independent software runtimes. And I see no reason for one of those not to be the Web. The idea of software applications running on a specific system or machine is about as useful and sane as video, audio or image files with that same limitation.