Friday, March 2, 2012

Time for a new internet browser

Time to be an old grump for a moment.

I've said it before, I'll say it again.  It's time to rewrite the browser.  Invent, create, realize a new way of browsing the internet.

Forget HTML, JavaScript, FlashPlayer et al.  Computers are powerful; why aren't browsers?  Why can't you develop on the browser the same way you develop directly onto the operating system?  Why isn't there a virtual machine to which you may directly target compilers?  That way, you have your cake and can eat it, too.

I'm not saying the browser should be an operating system; it's an application.  However, it should integrate with operating systems.  For example, security is an OS problem; it should not be an application's problem.  Why solve the same problem over and over again?  There are realtime impacts to this: HTTP and HTTPS are heavy compared to TFTP.

I am saying that HTML is annoying.  I don't think HTML5 will solve that problem - at least, it won't solve it anytime soon.  HTML is to the browser like Java is to the OS: it's a language, a display and layout language.  It defines the View.

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