> how is it a bandwagon instead of a future standard
Not saying I subscribe, but there's a view that a web browser should be for browsing web documents, not peer to peer video. There are limited development resources, and some feel those should be allocated to making web browsing faster and more power-efficient, rather than making a new networking platform and dealing with all the performance, compatibility, and security work that entails.
There's the cynic in me who thinks that the year of the linux desktop is when everything runs in the browser anyway. After switching away from windows, proper web clients have been a godsend for those programs that think: "linux port, lol nope". Considering I'm working in China right now and there's a sizeable population still running XP, that's happened quite a bit. Anything that makes that easier to do is a win in my book.
If I wanted to spartanly text browse the web, I'll point emacs at an URL. Not gonna waste cycles on all those silly stylesheets.
Not saying I subscribe, but there's a view that a web browser should be for browsing web documents, not peer to peer video. There are limited development resources, and some feel those should be allocated to making web browsing faster and more power-efficient, rather than making a new networking platform and dealing with all the performance, compatibility, and security work that entails.