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The comments criticizing this for using WebKit are ridiculous. Most Safari users would never guess that Chrome runs on the same layout engine, but with a different JavaScript core, networking code, a sandbox, an extension architecture, and UI.

Using Haskell for any of the above components (especially the last three) could help make a browser that's more configurable and safer than anything Firefox Chrome or Safari could ever offer.

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Certainly, a browser larger written in Haskell might be interesting.

People are critising this because so far they have done nothing interesting, just written a simple 'hello world'-type wrapper around a mountain of C++ code.

Yes, I was searching for an HTML renderer written in Haskell. It makes me remember HsExcel http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com.ar/2007/03/hsexcel.html

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