peace on the web, too

What do you really need when not doing development (or maybe even for that)?

1. A computer (a keyboard, a mouse, a CD/DVD player) with an Internet connection.
2. A browser with an integrated web server.
3. Ahhh … that’s all, folks.

FAQs:
Q: How about … applications?
A: Well, what do you mean? Don’t you have internet?

Q: How about mail?
A: yahoo, gmail, hotmail … whatever you want, Sir.

Q: How about Office applications?
A: I don’t understand your question. You mean wikis? We have. Or do you mean “editing documents, Excel sheets & stuff”? Well, you can have HTML online editing, repositories, private or not etc.
Or you can check stuff like writely.com.

Q: How about updates?
A: You mean for the browser? Oh, it will be automatic, we’ll do it for you when you restart your computer.

Q: And how about media (photos, music, films)?
A: We are still thinking about it. We have two choices for now: 1 - odeo, vlc, bbc or other online content providers will do it for you or 2 - you will have to use your home cd/dvd/divx player you bought for 50$.

Q: OK, for how much?
A: The system being based on some Linux, it will be, like … free I think. If you wish to donate somthing (in the case you like the browser, of course) you can. Maybe 10 bucks so you don’t have to think why is free :)

Q: What’s your solution for viruses, trojans, DoS attacks and other beasts?
A: Perhaps we will include some kind of router or protection; it will be rather calm and cosy around you.

Q: Extending the system options?
A: Like browser extensions? You can download a handfull :)

Q: And how about hardware? What if I want some more harddisk capacity?
A: Come on! Don’t you use search engines? You can rent some 4 Gb for 8 bucks a month! Why spending 150 each year for actually buying a hard drive???

Q: OK. But there must be a catch! In a year my computer will be kind of Matusalem, right? ;)
A: No way! 10 years seems more decent as a prevision :) You don’t have to buy those what’s the most powerfull and usefull too RAM memory this month magazines anymore. We will put some RAM for you. If it’s not enough, you can add some more. Perhaps you are an online gamer, right?

Q: I will be back, you know?.
A: OK.

Note
This is an imaginary dialog between a BrowserOS support and a client. BrowserOS doesn’t exist. Yet.
Idea inspired by recent kottke.org and Paul Graham notes.

Updated with some example sites.

Just found an article on Saving Session Across Page Loads Without Cookies, On The Client Side (via ajaxian.com).

This is very usefull. I must see if it works in IE, Firefox (maybe Safari).

If it goes well (enough) this can be used to manage services “injection” in a web page, using ajax+client-side sessions. The service can be called using ajax, keeping its session on the client, which is very cool when the session contains (almost) only user data, as this way the user’s data don’t have to leave the user’s computer :)