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Maybe if one day we wind up with a unified processor that is built to run HTML/CSS/JS? The arduino of tomorrow, perhaps?

Probably as likely as world peace, but it's fun to dream :)

EDIT: The suggestion alone could be enough to incite some creative out there to give it a go! The power of ideas and all that :D

It's not soooo crazy. ARM had the Jazelle instructions for executing Java bytecodes in hardware:

But it turned out to be outperformed by a JIT targeting Thumb(2?) instructions.

Interesting outcome.

Can't Windows 8 / Phone 8 metro apps be written in HTML/JS? I thought I read a while ago that it was a option other than C#.

Yes, they can but I'm not sure how easily third party stuff is installed and what APIs they are using.