Alan Kay was talking about the program model. There's no isolated module below the document namespace, leading to monolithic web apps and a lack of user-configu

Alan Kay was talking about the program model. There's no isolated module below the document namespace, leading to monolithic web apps and a lack of user-configurability. The browser needs to run more than one program at a time to be a serious OS. I imagine he compared the browser pretty directly to Smalltalk.