Seems like a bad idea to me. How will my browser do things such as autofill usernames and passwords, allow links to be opened in new tabs, block third-parties from tracking me with cookies, or allow me to globally change my font preferences if each web page actually uses a different "browser" that it downloaded, and whose only connection to the outside is IP and a framebuffer? Or how would a browser be able to give me crisper text on a Retina display with no change to web pages, or provide hardware-accelerated threaded scrolling, or let me play video with hardware-accelerated decoding?
(These are a few of the things that, as a browser engineer, I expect could not be done in this model.)
Also as a Mac user, I expect this would result in many forms in web pages giving me controls that look and act like Windows.
Against these likely disadvantages, the advantages seem slim. We already have good ways to distribute sandboxed native apps. The Web doesn't need to become one of them.
> How will my browser do things such as autofill usernames and passwords, allow links to be opened in new tabs, block third-parties from tracking me with cookies, or allow me to globally change my font preferences if each web page actually uses a different "browser" that it downloaded
"The only thing here that isn't a threat to our business model and/or Design Vision is password autofill. We'll get right on solving that." -- The MBA Voice in my head
(These are a few of the things that, as a browser engineer, I expect could not be done in this model.)
Also as a Mac user, I expect this would result in many forms in web pages giving me controls that look and act like Windows.
Against these likely disadvantages, the advantages seem slim. We already have good ways to distribute sandboxed native apps. The Web doesn't need to become one of them.