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I started building a new app and was bummed when I discovered Chrome didn't support the Html5 File API. The next day Chrome 6 was released along with said API support. Now the canary version includes WebGL support. These guys are moving FAST. IE9 doesn't stand a chance.

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Exactly. Is anyone standing up and demanding that Google release more slowly?

I could totally see somebody in the big companies starting to whine to the press and demand exactly that, if Microsoft picks up the pace to match Googles.

I just hope they only whine about it, and don't go to their lobbyists.

If Microsoft moves to forced automatic updates of IE, I bet somebody would see a business opportunity and grab it: take WebKit and hack in IE (and COM components) compatibility. Such a product could be worth quite a bit to companies with large IE-only sites.

In fact, the release of IE9 may already be enough to create that market. The main problem I see with this is that it may be very hard to make a sufficiently-compatible IE clone.

Surely it would be easier to hack around the forced updates than to turn Webkit into Trident.

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