Firefox had a much higher market share than Chrome back then. Context matters.

Mozilla and others had pretty strong technical objections to Native Client. Context matters (sometimes :))

Oh, I think I misunderstood you. You mean the AST is going to go the way of Native Client because Mozilla doesn't have the muscle it used to? Or do you think Google's going to sandbag it as revenge for Native Client? :)

Sorry, to clarify:

> All they have to do is convince Google. Chrome's the king of the castle right now.

When I replied "Native Client", I was giving an example where Chrome came out with something the other browser vendors rejected on technical grounds.

I love this development (Binary AST) and hope it's adopted.