One silver lining of the otherwise (IMHO) mostly-bad situation we have with centralization of browsers is that it is conceivable through our standards groups th

One silver lining of the otherwise (IMHO) mostly-bad situation we have with centralization of browsers is that it is conceivable through our standards groups that the major browser vendors agree to experiment with a replacement. From my perspective the problem is even in the name itself, the D in DOM stands for document, which is exactly the problem. The DOM was never designed as an application framework but we've shoehorned it into that role.