[mrpsbrk]

Though we don't have to. The real point of the web is that a poor view (standard html view) should suffice. That is what make WWW and Mosaic instead of Xanadu. It is a pain to have to close browser tabs to stop my fan rotating, since most of the times mplayer wont activate it. Bigger apps than anyone ever dreamt? Everyone dreamt them. It's just small apps are better. Worse is better.

[corysama]

The web is being stretched far beyond it's real point because we have found a need for safe, secure, installess /full-blown-applications/ but we haven't found anything better than the web to discover and deliver them. I'd love to have an iPad-in-my-desktop that's just a NaCl launcher. But, every time I think through what it would require to be practical, I end up re-inventing Chrome.