Comment by Ygg2

> Honestly Google's probably almost as guilty - Native Client was a great idea and sidestepped basically all the issues

NaCl failed on its own.

A) Wasn't backwards compatible

B) Spec was - look at the Chrome source

C) No one other than Google wanted it

D) It was essentially ActiveX Google (yeah, ActiveX had some nifty ideas and they still persist to this day)