[stingraycharles]

I agree with you that this innovation isn't a particulary good one. However, a single platform in a language that allows you develop and test rapidly (which, arguably, javascript is) is a consequence about the ever increasing push for innovation, which I can understand.

In addition to that, I am very glad that Chrome and Firefox ship with their own PDF readers and I don't have to deal with Adobe anymore to read a portable document format.