[withjive]

What you said is true, however...

I am referring to the initial offering of Native Client for inclusion into FireFox.

Since this did not happen, Native client did not see the uptake it needed— and the team was destaffed.

Since it was a working platform that actually existed and let you use a modified version of LLVM, it was quite usable.

We could of have powerful native sandboxed apps quite a long time ago if FireFox became PNaCl compatible.

Instead, Mozilla envisioned that the JIT could eventually bridge the native performance gap.

Mozilla defended this ideas such as ASM and emscripten. And now Mozilla is coming close to a more open and performant web.