Open Sourcing BrowserPlus: Q & A with Lloyd Hilaiel  Editor's
note: I exchanged email with Lloyd Hilaiel from Yahoo's
BrowserPlus team and he answered some of my questions about how
the project got started, what kept it alive, and how today we've
announced our intent to open source this original technology,
enabling open development on a platform for in-browser desktop
applications.  1. Where did the idea for BrowserPlus come from?
A couple years ago I was on a team tasked with increasing
collaboration and code-sharing between the many different
development groups at Yahoo!. We were specifically looking to
uncover interesting and innovative ideas in native client
applications, and massage them into re-usable libraries. We were
extracting gems--good solutions to problems with wide appeal--
and making them easy for anyone in the company to apply.  The
project, in some respects, was a failure. At the end of our two-
year run we had many C++ libraries, which ran on every operating
system under the sun, to perform