[malandrew]

I know this is OT, but how hard would it be to create a thin layer so that WebKit run on bare metal?

[kbrosnan]

Mozilla is doing this with Gecko. Google is sort of doing this with Chromebooks (AFIK). There is little to no incentive for Apple or Google to do this on their flagship products of iOS and Android since they already have dev ecosystems using objective c and java respectively.

[simias]

Depends on the metal, which is why it's nice to have an OS as an abstraction layer :)

[dvhh]

wasn't that the goal of webOS ?