Comment Re:Is Google trying to fragment web? (Score 1) 165
We had that shit before with ActiveX.
Native Client runs in a sandbox so it's nothing like ActiveX.
HTML5 does nothing in itself, it still needs some coding to be done in Javascript. While Javascript interpreters did get better and faster it's still far from native speed. And it's still only Javascript. If you have a game developped in C I still don't see how to convert it to Javascript. MAME is one example of a complex C program hard to translate to Javascript but could be ported easily (4 days) to the Native Client platform.
Chrome is available for most platform including Linux and is open source. So stop whining about it not being a standard. It's not IE we are talking about.