[cap-talk] browsers as operating system

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

John Carlson wrote:
> I think we have to start thinking about web browsers as operating  
> systems.  The have multiple processes.  They should support any  
> language coming over the the network "in rendering engine space",  
> whether it be HTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, XPath, JavaScript, ECMAScript,  
> ActionScript, Java, E, Joe-E, C#, C++, C, etc.

Web browsers are complicated enough just supporting HTML, XML, CSS,
XSLT, XPath, JavaScript, Java, and various plug-ins.

Why on earth would we want to make them more complicated by adding
E, C#, C++, and C, before fixing the existing problems? Especially
given that C++ and C are not even memory-safe?

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David-Sarah Hopwood