There is also such a thing as opportunity cost. Web browsing, and the online world in general, is execrably insecure. A day doesn't pass without a high-profile

There is also such a thing as opportunity cost. Web browsing, and the online world in general, is execrably insecure. A day doesn't pass without a high-profile target being owned by some attention-seeking script kiddie. I can only imagine what serious malware syndicates, who don't advertise themselves to the whole world, have been up to. And what does the web development world want to do? It wants WebGL and a bunch of other shiny new APIs. As a user, I am just annoyed by this. I also work on stuff that needs to be secure, and if I wanted to add bells and whistles and dancing monkeys and make security worse instead of fixing it, I'd be told "no." Actually, I would never propose it. Now I realize that the complaint is directed at no one in particular, but I still can't help being annoyed. Now, this WebGL thing in particular has every security researcher saying "don't expose GPU drivers to this." And the web developers' response is essentially "nyah nyah, you're getting this anyway and you can't stop it". Or "what are you, a Microsoft stooge? They are doing it too." Or just "go away and stop harshing my mellow" (around here, the way of doing that is with a downvote). Well, OK, enough out of me on this subject.