On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Many page requires user interaction, so a kind of programmatic is required 
> to animate any HTML version. And as George said in this thread, browsers 
> now looks like a platform on their own, and this platform sometime 
> requires its applications, which are the plugins (mainly to play medias). 
> You could do many worthy browsing with a pure HTML browser, like going to 
> AdaIC for some news (:-)), but sooner or later you will go frustrated.

I suppose people interested in using a high integrity web browser as a front 
end for a critical application would be in control of both the client and 
the server. As such they could design the server side to cater to the 
limitations of the specialized client.

Browsing arbitrary Internet sites even with a browser that just enforces 
standards would be a disaster. Imposing other limitations would definitely 
be impractical. I agree with you there.

Peter