Slightly sophomoric, but interesting:
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=38FBC962-C6BF-964F-590BACFE526B0A98
The reasons:
Browser as ultimate OS reason No. 1: The rise of vast, rich Web applications
Browser as ultimate OS reason No. 2: Easy extensibility via plug-ins
Browser as ultimate OS reason No. 3: Its open source foundation
Browser as ultimate OS reason No. 4: Metaprogramming
Browser as ultimate OS reason No. 5: Multiplatform simplicity and mutability
Browser as ultimate OS reason No. 6: A clean abstraction layer
Browser as ultimate OS reason No. 7: Better sharing models for libraries
Browser as ultimate OS reason No. 8: Fertile, competitive marketplace
Browser as ultimate OS reason No. 9: SVG, canvas, vector graphics, great
user interfaces
Browser as ultimate OS reason No. 10: Node.js
The article expands. JSEverywhere has been in our minds for quite some
time, but this is yet another articulation.
-- Owen
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