Forget Apps, Carbyn Has Built A HTML5 OS

Everything that is old is new again.

But this time it makes even less sense. I'm going to use my browser to launch html 5 app versions of websites I can just type the URL of into the same browser...

It actually doesn't make any sense, but for the common user it could be a marketing trap. Fancy titles like "HTML5 OS" when there's really nothing innovative here...

Common users don't care about HTML5.

This thing is amazingly pointless. This has been done a dozen times, and at the end of the day, it simply adds no value.

“Hopefully Facebook doesn’t try to pull a Microsoft and create some proprietary hooks for HTML5,” Haider says.

... How does that even make sense? They're just name-dropping.

What a thoroughly ridiculous idea.

They already did. FBML and FBJS have been in practice awhile. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/fbjs/

Except that it isn't an operating system. It's more like an HTML5 window manager that runs in a web browser.

Or just a fancy title with a nice web page to collect Names, Emails and Twitter accounts.