I remember reading an article some time ago about some people who inspected power lines from a helicopter. They introduced check lists and the number of accidents increased. It related to them no longer going through the plan as a team and absently mindedly checking off the list without thinking about it properly. My search skills are failing me and I can't find it anywhere.
I used to develop Set Top Box user interfaces that used the Ekioh browser. We'd use SVG, JavaScript and CSS to get native UI performance in a browser that was running in 256MB ram. Their later versions enabled us to use HTML5 and CSS3. I enjoyed the challenges of balancing UI animation against capturing keypresses and other events as well as executing JavaScript fetched via AJAX. Due to the memory constraints we couldn't use any JavaScript frameworks and wrote everything in vanilla JS.
Our C and C++ developers would expose the native hardware functionality up into the JavaScript Ekioh engine so that we could access and control features like scanning cable TV frequencies and recording to disk.
The cable and satellite TV networks would end up paying a licence per instance of the browser running on each of their customers set top boxes.
