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While I do agree that web browsers could be the future, I expect it will take a long long time for the industry to transform. Given that some many browsers and standards on the market these days, can you take the risk to develop an application just working on Chrome? Even you do, if your customers don't like Chrome, you have no way to reach them. At the end of the day, you still have compromise with customers, no matter how great Chrome and HTML 5 are.

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Browsers other than Chrome also support HTML 5. Sure, support is partial at this point, but the standard hasn't even been released yet. What makes you think someone would develop an app that only works on Chrome?

Projects like Google Native Client ( http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ ) makes me think that. If you can execute X86 code and leverage hardware acceleration through a browser that would probably be worth telling people to download Chrome to use your app.

Given that NaCl is open source I would expect to see it running in all webkit-based browsers as well as mozilla, not just chrome.

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