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If you want to check out a Browser app type of OS try looking into the 
dead OS SUN project called JAVAOS. 

In <a669c428-4606-409f-81fb-710adbfbeb24@h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
>On 5 f=E9v, 08:10, "Cedric.Lannock" <Cedric.Lann...@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Because a lot of applications are build into browsers the new OS could
>> offer a good browser technology making it easy to developers to build
>> applications for the new OS because they could take to already
>> available software directly to the new platform.
>
>I deeply agree with this. The browser aspect would be even more
>important than the POSIX aspect (in respect to end user). POSIX
>services for core computation and browser like services for the UI.
>
>This could indeed ends up in a lighweight OS, while offering all the
>major needs.
>
>A question is till pending : which audiance are you targeting ?
>Typical nowadays users or computation users ? If you wish to target
>the second kind of users, then POSIX + browser services is clearly
>enough... but if you whish to target most of nowadays users, you will
>face a lot of work with the heavy and silly requirements of
>multim=E9dia.
>
>Have a nice time
>
>Y.D.