Hi Dan,

> What would be the motivation for that?
> Cross-platform compatibility?

Yeah, cross-platform would be one goal of that.

But another goal is just reduction of external dependencies for greater long term stability - the main downside of mshtml is that different machines have various different installed versions of it. And it is possible for new versions of it to come along and change in behavior enough to cause problems.

If the UI could be driven in larger part from self-contained code it would take out a lot of those variables.

- Michael