> The more I think about this, the more convinced I am that I want a browser that functions like an IDE. Yep. That is exactly how I think about it as well. Th

> The more I think about this, the more convinced I am that I want a browser that functions like an IDE. Yep. That is exactly how I think about it as well. The browser and the IDE are effectively the same metaphor of a "super-app", just different security assumptions about where the information resides, how much it can be trusted and what can be done with it, how active the user input etc. In systems such as Firefox OS or ChromeOs the boundaries dissolve further. Thinking about open source desktops and their application ecosystems, instead of countless independent efforts that waste precious talent in incompatible replication there could be some sort of architecture where lower level apps (editors, file/tab/bookmark/tag managers, shells, webview or spreadsheet renderers etc) could be recombined in various ways in the browser/IDE (or run as standalone apps).