>light-years to go before it's a viable platform >for anything involving animation and graphics once all browsers support the canvas element (as does firefox

>light-years to go before it's a viable platform >for anything involving animation and graphics once all browsers support the canvas element (as does firefox3) its just a matter of time until some standard 2D animation libraries popup that will enable game development. flash is ecmascript + proprietary set of libraries and a great IDE. but javascript has the advantage of coming out-of-the-box with the browser. (and in the distant future there is Canvas 3D, which really is opengl exposed to JS :) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Canvas:3D https://wiki.mozilla.org/Canvas:3D )