We may finally see this, if only as a side effect of Eich's departure from Mozilla. Google and Mozilla are the only mainstream browser vendors that have an inc

We may finally see this, if only as a side effect of Eich's departure from Mozilla. Google and Mozilla are the only mainstream browser vendors that have an incentive to offer a bytecode alternative to the JavaScript status quo, whereas Apple and Microsoft would simply be undermining their respective platform positions. This means that Mozilla could have worked with Google to form a bloc; Chrome and Firefox would have been the only browsers to support better web technology, and that might have been enough to force Microsoft and Apple's hand. Instead, Eich stuck to his "JavaScript First" guns for years, wasting market opportunities and in the process, serving as the swing vote that held the entire web back. I hope that the next CEO of Mozilla realizes that for platforms like Firefox OS to have a snowball's chance in hell, they need to work with Google to move past HTML/CSS/JS.