I came here to say the same thing. Also, Google and Mozilla are experimenting with making such functionality available to webapps as Web Intents / Web Activities http://webintents.org/ http://mozillalabs.com/blog/2011/07/web-apps-update-experiments-in-web-activities-app-discovery/ I hope Microsoft will join the effort rather than making a separate system.

Since when is this known as "The Toolkit"? The lack of github followers and general references across the internet makes this claim suspect. Its History file only goes back a few days, so I wonder how this could possibly be "long-awaited."

just two weeks ago. Webian Shell on top of Linux sounds a lot like Chrome OS to me...

As author of the Mozilla WebP patch, I can confirm that this was originally true. However, due to various shortcomings in design, WebP split off into its own codec library.

Games like the upcoming Conduit 2 get around the off-screen problem by using the Wii Motion Plus gyroscope for directional input when pointer information is missing. They also have a button mapped to 180 degree turn.

The Blue Ribbon Campaign pre-dates DeCSS by more than three years, back to 1996, and was originally formed to protest the Communications Decency Act.

You can use XML-conformant HTML 5. It's called XHTML 5 (read the spec).

Sounds like the QML (Declarative UI) portion of Qt Kinetic (and Qt Style Sheets have been around for a while).