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This is the way forward for codecs on the web. Alan Kay has previously complained about how dumbed-down the browsers are in comparison to the possibilities of mobile code, and that's now starting to become less true.

The next step beyond that is to provide browser extensions for programming network protocols. One-way HTTP over NAT sucks, web-sockets do not and will not work.

We're starting to come back around to the vision of the Internet in the 80s - multi-protocol, multi-host (if you're on the web, you can be a server), mobile code via bytecode (or source code), and with pervasive remote access (VNC and X11/NX).