The Web Can't Afford a JavaScript Runtime Monoculture
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Maybe it can't afford one but it wants one very, very badly. There was IE 6 circa 2003, just shy of a lockout monopoly. Thankfully, Microsoft mistakenly stopped work on it, letting Firefox and Chrome in. We're repeating the same mistake with Chrome. I doubt Google will drop the ball like Microsoft did. Ad incentives weren't as great in 2005 as they are now.