Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about WebGL, etc. But I've got a brand spanking new machine that churns through every task I've thrown at it... except WebGL dem

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about WebGL, etc. But I've got a brand spanking new machine that churns through every task I've thrown at it... except WebGL demos. I'm running the latest Chrome and it's simply choppy as hell, despite the low polygon count. Why are we bending over backwards to modernize a bunch of antiquated document technologies? I quite like Javascript, but it is rapidly becoming byte code. If you considered "compilation target" to be a JS design goal, I'd consider Javascript to be an abject failure. Similarly, while I realize WebGL is in its infancy, any 3D rendering layer that, by design, cannot approach the performance of Direct3D for simply pushing polygons (not even talking about programmable pipelines) is also an abject failure.