&gt;We need to get away from this whole &quot;The browser is a poor man&#x27;s operating system&quot; model anyway. Let the browser do a great job of browsing hypermedia and then hand off to specialized programs when we want to do something outside that paradigm.<p>While I don&#x27;t believe the Web should be an OS. There absolutely needs to be vendor neutral, hardware&#x2F;system independent software runtimes. And I see no reason for one of those not to be the Web.<p>The idea of software applications running on a specific system or machine is about as useful and sane as video, audio or image files with that same limitation.