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WebComponents is the reason the page won't display anything in Firefox. If you enable them in about:config, you will at least be able to view the sheet.

It's basically a demo of their native code sandbox technology: (P)NaCL

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client

This new online notebook system is probably the successor of:

http://colaboratory.jupyter.org/welcome/

I was confused. This is a hosted colaboraty service.

But the new google drive / jupyter integration is called jupyter-drive:

https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-drive

Is this really a demo of PNaCl? While I can find references to a previous project also called Colaboratory, which appears to have a Chrome app and probably indeed used NaCl/PNaCl, this actually appears to connect to a backend of some sort, as evidenced by the "Registration required" whenever you try to run any code in Google Chrome.

Embrace, extend and extinguish. Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss.