The pilot interface, though, is not just for executing single actions; it's for executing against complicated checklists, some of which may be less familiar to

The pilot interface, though, is not just for executing single actions; it's for executing against complicated checklists, some of which may be less familiar to pilots, some of which may even be uploaded asynchronously from the ground (for instance, consider the unorthodox procedures developed for the Apollo 13 astronauts), and some of which may be concurrently ongoing. This lends itself extremely well to hypertext [0] and to interface components such as collapsible sections of text, being able to display multiple procedures simultaneously, being able to resize them relative to a dashboard of diagnostics (if not a window manager, a split-screen), and placing the button(s) required to execute a step directly near that step without needing to manually resize boxes when this is requested. Browser technology is exactly the stack that has solved all these problems! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext