Web pages that can access the microphone sounds like an absolutely insane idea to me, but then like I said, web dev is absolutely mental at the moment...
get off my lawn etc.
get off my lawn etc.
Not buying it.
There are plenty of uses for newer standards, that's why they're created, but it only works if the browsers carry their weight and implement them consistently. Safari doesnt, and is thus holding back the progress, just like IE6+ did.