It's a bit less "awesome" than most people think. The point is, now that we've taken something that was originally intended for viewing documents over the netw

It's a bit less "awesome" than most people think. The point is, now that we've taken something that was originally intended for viewing documents over the network and turned it haphazardly into something we realized that we actually wanted (running applications portably and with frictionless installation), we'd better design something from scratch that does what we want without all the unbearable cruft that comes with browsers, HTML and HTTP.