I've said for years that a pluggable javascript engine should be something that was fundamental to browsers. Extending it further, plugins that allowed for alternate and complementary lower-level technologies (easily embed a python engine, for example) would lead to more competition and innovation.
We just had a discussion (or, I had a rant) about this at a local web meetup last night. 10 years ago it was "IE only". We're moving in to "webkit only" these days, especially if you're targetting mobile users. In some ways it doesn't feel like we've progressed all that much.
I've said for years that a pluggable javascript engine should be something that was fundamental to browsers. Extending it further, plugins that allowed for alternate and complementary lower-level technologies (easily embed a python engine, for example) would lead to more competition and innovation.
We just had a discussion (or, I had a rant) about this at a local web meetup last night. 10 years ago it was "IE only". We're moving in to "webkit only" these days, especially if you're targetting mobile users. In some ways it doesn't feel like we've progressed all that much.