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Entry text: [quote="voracity"]I think you've misunderstood my intent. The user wouldn't run that command, of course. They would download an installer to get Firefox, or just use the internal update --- as always. Nothing at all would change from a user's perspective (if they're not interested in learning how to hack). However, tinkerers and developers and alternative browser developers (such as yourself) could run that, and they could host almost the whole browser online. The gecko engine (acting like a low-level OS) would just need to be a) Turing complete :), b) fast, c) provide decent APIs for all of the computer's hardware and d) be a little bit of kitchen sink with respect to the HTML/CSS/Javascript/etc. features it provides. Doing it this way would also force the browser developers to dogfood their own engine as an application engine --- a little like XUL, but with the kind of remote access that websites have to deal with on a daily basis (and that browsers still don't). Browser developers would be forced to create great application caching systems, lag-free and uncomplicated client/server architectures and well-defined security boundaries --- because that's what they have to do to make their own application! Let's face it, every computer scientist's ultimate goal is to self-host their own software. That's what my suggestion is about. The user won't notice any difference (except for a faster rate of improvements) but the developers get access to the ultimate form of hackable and rapid development system.[/quote]
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