> I think there's a very good argument they the center of the open consumer internet is the browser, and that soloing functionality off of that (even if the pa

> I think there's a very good argument they the center of the open consumer internet is the browser, and that soloing functionality off of that (even if the particular thing you are promoting happens to be an open solution) ends up just reinforcing the trend toward balkanization of the internet into domains of disconnected functionality mostly ruled by proprietary apps and services. That seems like the exact same argument people said with IE6.