I don't follow any line of thinking that presumes widespread adoption of anything on the basis of HTML/CSS/JS being inconvenient or impure. As if that has ever

I don't follow any line of thinking that presumes widespread adoption of anything on the basis of HTML/CSS/JS being inconvenient or impure. As if that has ever stopped us. Time has shown that the collective energy of a million developers butting their heads up against those limitations is enough to keep things moving forward an inch at a time. The web is a messy and inconsistent place and will undoubtedly remain so for a long time to come. As for Silverlight and AIR, well, they might taste like pumpkin pie, but I wouldn't know, etc. ( p.s. for anybody using WebKit nightlies: http://webkit.org/blog-files/animation-demo.svg http://webkit.org/blog-files/animation-demo.svg )