Nice idea, Richard, but it's a non-starter for two big reasons.
First, users will hate it. If you're a Windows user accustomed to doing some of the funky UI stuff Windows supports, you will not like using an app that behaves differently from your expectations. Cross-platform is meaningless to 99% of users. They expect things to work the right way on *their* platform of choice. They don't care how hard it is for us developers to make it that way.
Second, programmers will hate it. Consistency of UI is a bugaboo to developers, many of whom think they have a better/more creative/cooler way to do something.
Smalltalk tried -- and still tries -- to define "cross-platform" as meaning "looks same on all platforms." They don't get away with it, by and large. We wouldn't either.
Bottom line: if we're going to be multi-platform developers, we have to learn to develop so our apps look and behave natively on all targeted platforms. Rev comes much, much closer to supporting that ideal than any IDE or language of which I am aware. Especially Java. (yuk)
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