[carldall]

Regarding Native Client: I don't think that Google is evil just because they try to move web technologies forward in non w3c standardized ways, and I don't even want to go into this discussion because there're (imho) valid arguments for both sides, But: For web developers, this whole process is suboptimal to say the least. It only adds to the already existing complexity of the web technology stack but enforces more browser checks and fallbacks.

Even worse, as soon as you're working for a customer who isn't technical, you'll land in a situation where he shows you a Native Client app and wants "something like that" on his website but running in Firefox or Safari or (even worse) Internet Explorer.