Thanks to Greyback we have a web browser on the OSD. Well, sort of anyway. It's a bit more of a proof of concept, but it's certainly a start and he's outlined many of the steps that are remaining in his Webkit forum thread . Of course, this is not the only path to getting a web browser on the OSD, and we've got a Google Summer of Code project dedicated to this, so alternate ideas are certainly encouraged.

The idea of a web browser on the OSD is not so much for conventional surfing on the TV set, but more as a tool to locate and browse the exploding variety of multimedia content that's coming online. It also provides a way to write simple applications using web tools that would really open the door to a host of developers that could otherwise not participate in the OSD's development.