James Mickens, an associate professor of computer science at Harvard, gave a talk about the various flaws of web browsers and how we might go about making them more secure and robust:
To fix the browser, we need to radically restructure the browser architecture…so in particular I propose that we dramatically narrow the responsibilities of the browser itself and give more responsibilities to web pages. So in this new model the web developer defines her own rendering engine and her own script engine and her own markup parser.
The idea that web developers in the future might have this much control over the underlying technology of the web is completely mind boggling. James gives some good examples as to why we need this much control and how web pages that don
