The answer is quite obvious. While traditional institutional fear make it invisible. It is sad even Mozilla execs cannot see the obvious solution raised by th

The answer is quite obvious. While traditional institutional fear make it invisible. It is sad even Mozilla execs cannot see the obvious solution raised by the question Google has asked. Browser vendors could standardize at an even lower level. A system following the heart of Unix could allow for shared architectural components between the vendors and rapid innovation in the industry as a whole. Why shouldn't MSIE be able to use the rendering engine of Chrome + the Javascript engine of Mozilla? A simple "chassis" for W3C supporting browsers isn't some technological utopian vision. Just simple, stupid, good design. Getting vendors (and the developers "on the ground") to work on something would be the hard part. But oh what a wondrous world it would be.