My main reason for the browser is that it makes seamless to execute code on a remote machine. Text-based interfaces are not very useful because you can't see pl

My main reason for the browser is that it makes seamless to execute code on a remote machine. Text-based interfaces are not very useful because you can't see plots without saving them and copying them. X11 forwarding is slow. My current solution is NX, but it's not optimal, since I hate NX 4 and NX 3.5 doesn't run on Lion. Cloud9 IDE is already a decent browser-based code editor. It's already better than the MATLAB editor in just about every way but integration with the interpreter. Using a browser-based IDE will solve both the cross-platform UI issue and the remote access issue.