Well done on your efforts and may Mozilla continue to develop into a force for good. At the moment, however, and Persona is a good example of this, the browser

Well done on your efforts and may Mozilla continue to develop into a force for good. At the moment, however, and Persona is a good example of this, the browser approach to innovation is very much top-down with high-level APIs like UndoManager, WebRTC, IndexedDB rather than bottom-up with low-level APIs like UDP, TCP and POSIX which would trust the developer community to do the rest. Browsers are just not very programmable when compared to platforms like mobile and native. For example, if the user would be allowed by the browser to empower a web app with raw POSIX, then that would unleash an explosion of databases running in the browser, orders of magnitude better and faster than IndexedDB. Sadly, this kind of innovation is currently locked up tight inside the various spec committees. For sure, developers can contribute to the mailing lists, but innovation should not be made to go through that kind of process at all in the first place. Innovation on the web needs to be decentralized not centralized. Ideally, Mozilla needs to start making that possible, by providing just the right OS-level APIs and a simple way for users to grant these to Web Apps. It must be 1984 that one can use a browser, but not be allowed to give raw TCP or UDP or POSIX annointing to web apps that one trusts. See Tim Berners-Lee on the subject: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMar/0464.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMa...