[userbinator]

Imagine if someone in Microsoft had a clue and was able to constrain the browser to being a simple scripted document viewer? I'm convinced suppressing client-side web application development would have lent the Windows OS a few more years of platform and developer mindshare dominance!

...and the web might have turned out to be a bit less user-hostile and inefficiently resource-consuming than it currently is today, which might not be so bad after all.