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1. All this talk about 'Native' is basically propaganda. There is no such thing. All modern browsers generate native code when running JavaScript, and most use GPU acceleration to render content (for example, Firefox uses Direct2D, exactly the same as IE9). IE9 and 10 are not more 'native' than other browsers.

2. I am impressed by the work on implementing new standards - kudos to Microsoft. But I did not see anything about WebGL, which is a very important standard that is already implemented in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and (soon, or already) Opera.




Mozilla is now going full-steam ahead with a plan to support Native HTML5 in Firefox. :)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=nativehtml5

http://arewenativeyet.com/


WebGL won't happen until it makes its way into the HTML spec. Historically MS hasn't been supportive of Khronos standards. And I don't really know of any customers important to MS that are demanding WebGL.


Yep the story about OpenGL and DirectX is well-known now.




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