In a way they did. HTML/HTTP is exactly what you get if you extend it to cover all the modern stuff, and it's great. I think the real question is why can't th

In a way they did. HTML/HTTP is exactly what you get if you extend it to cover all the modern stuff, and it's great. I think the real question is why can't the display manager just be a browser, plus some backwards compatibility for "here's a bunch of pixels".. All the RAM use issues of Electron go away if the whole desktop is a single shared browser, plus you can do client side JS work and not need to send any data at all for a lot of things, AND you can cache things, plus you can decompress video client side, play sound on the client... Just do HTTP over UNIX domain sockets with some signalling to tell the server to open a window.