Chatting in a web browser is an abomination of an idea, and only serves to illustrate the limitations and inanity of the "web" as some kind of universal platfor

Chatting in a web browser is an abomination of an idea, and only serves to illustrate the limitations and inanity of the "web" as some kind of universal platform. If this is ever to occur, then at the very least the browser as an application must disappear, leaving "web applications" as first-class citizens. Of course this is impossible when "web developers" target the browser as if it were an unchallengeable precondition rather than thinking about how people are actually using their computers. As long as JavaScript interpreted/JIT'd by a web browser is the language de jure, you will forever be second-class citizens.