god some of the things that websites are going to have in the near future will be insane.
Im liking the look of WebGL, very interesting.
whats the benefit of WebGL over a LWJGL applet?
does anyone know if WebGL works on Mac Chrome, as LWJGL is currently broken on it.
Also can data be seamlessly downloaded while running a large scale WebGL app?
I remember writing complex things too and having trouble to make them work on Netscape and than later on FF ( and I can still write tons of code that will only work in IE but inded I wont… )
IE4 was offering very complex things long time ago too that no browser yet have never been able to, like 3D without plugin using JavaScript + DirectAnimation/DirectX (those feature have been removed now), (I admit that today FF work a lot better than before)
Until IE9, IE never really take in consideration W3C but … few years ago standard was IE and not W3C… that’s what a lot of people seems to have missed.
Also I dont like the way W3C recomendation have come to us and how people have follow them without taking car of the reality/existent browser market : imagine that someone a day decide to standardize Car conception and say that to be “compliant” a car must be 5 meters wide, even if the idea is perfect and if a car made with those recommendations would work a lot better than any other cars, it would be stupid to follow them because it wont be able to circulate anywhere this is what happend with W3C recommendations (even if nowadays it begin to be ok).
About Chrome this is only a political/ideologic problem I have more and more with Google, Microsoft have been forced to put a ballot screen to let user choose a browser, what about a ballot screen to let user choose it search engine each time it make a web search ? (but more than that, annoyed by the way they are allowed to not respect some laws, and how they grab money by persuading people that’s what they ask is just a cool & fun project and that they should participate )
But finally I think that I am just very “resentful” about all the problems I got in the past trying to make things work in FF, or receiving work that was only working in FF just because people was thinking IE is the bad ( how to reconize people that develop with FF ? just try there work with IE, they will answer “that’s not my fault, IE is not compatible” :-X, but not compatible with what !? )
and more than all that I wrote above : I love to be the “devil’s advocate” 
Its not really in MS’s interest to have a free and open web which relies on standards. Its against their whole business model of locking people into their two big cash cows (Windows and Office).
Only reason IE9 is now trying to play catch up to the rest of the browsers is that its become the laughing stoke of all the web developers out there and is actually filtering through to businesses and harming them (Once you’ve lost the browser, only a few steps to move over to another OS). Its still unclear how far IE9 will go to address the problem and what MS’s real intentions are for supporting web standards, not to forget it’ll be years before the older versions of IE die.
As for WebGL, MS will never support it in IE as its a major threat to their whole DirectX business. Developers who use OpenGL can easily port their games over to other operating systems/platforms which further endangers the windows monopoly.
What worries me is that everyone is already pointing to HTML 5 even though it is not yet finished, and won’t be for at least two years. Sure, it will be a huge upgrade over what we’re using now, but won’t it be smart to wait until it’s actually finished and 95+ percent of people have browsers properly supporting it?
The masses of people developing websites never cease to surprise me. The buzzword of the last few years has been standards, and now people complain that IE doesn’t support HTML 5… which is not a standard (yet).
Seems they copied a bit from Chrome, which is a good thing I guess.
I just looked at its new features list and haven’t seen anything new that’s not in any other browser. But glad they are finally doing some needed updates.
For me Ill be sticking with Chrome as I find its the best from my tests. I like using the dev version to test the latest stuff (yet it rarely crashes).
inded they copy chrome aswell as chrome have copied all others browsers when they get out