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Alan Kay reckons they aren't OS:es enough https://www.quora.com/Should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-being-document-viewers https://www.quora.com/Should-web-browse

• tpmx 6y ago
  Very interesting, thanks for posting! Edit: I removed some stuff I first wrote. > It’s both surprisingly and dismayingly difficult to get people — especially computerists — to criticize the web and the web browsers — even more so perhaps today. Definitely agree with this. People tend to view it as something handed down to them by Gods. It's not. Edit 2: This needs a larger discussion. I just posted it as a new submission.