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The one thing that browsers should improve on in order to make this a good way to run applications is the caching of the "application" locally. If there is no internet connection present the web browser should be able to load and view the last version of the web app. it downloaded so the user can still do work offline (like when flying). Then when the user is online again the modified files could by synced with the server.
Then again, I could be totally behind the game and they might already have this...
I guess I am a step behind:
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=92323&topic=13769
The server could then do a diff on the two manifest files and send back a new package containing the latest libraries and updated manifest. The browser unpackages it, caches it and runs it.
I would personally like to see the browser turn more into a type of command utility sort of like enso. But ideally it would be neat to just go to a website and get an application. Then just bookmark it to an icon on the desktop or something. It would be like bookmarking a website, but it's web app. Neat stuff.