• Browsers are getting improvements because "...they increasingly become the focal point for handling business transactions and running programs over the internet rather than simply displaying Web sites."
• "Major internet companies ... are devoting tremendous resources developing these Web applications -- and browser developers want them to run well."
• "Most end-user applications being developed today have at least part of their functionality running on the browser,..." (a quote in the article attributed to Christen Kroch, Opera's VP of Engineering).

We think this is a good thing, and we welcome the gathering migration to the universal application platform that browsers running Ajax appear to represent.