Isn't this what Java was about? You were supposed to write code that would run on any platform, and that code would download data from the web and display in an

Isn't this what Java was about? You were supposed to write code that would run on any platform, and that code would download data from the web and display in any way it wanted. The fact that it didn't work just shows that it is much easier to create UIs that use a common set of standards, instead of creating your own ad-hoc UI for every new web site.