Many people thought replacing email and IM with some grand collaborative technology would be spectacular too. A lot of articles were written about Wave, breathl

Many people thought replacing email and IM with some grand collaborative technology would be spectacular too. A lot of articles were written about Wave, breathlessly reciting the history of email in their opening paragraphs as if it was already a given that Wave was a successor of equal magnitude. I'm not convinced at this point in time that NaCl offers enough advantages over the rapid development of JavaScript or the power and speed of operating system APIs. Apps running in the browser was attempted in the 90s with Java, and NaCl been around for a few years now. This link is just announcing that it's supporting the Pepper plug-in interface in Chrome.