Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - O'Reilly Radar

“Never underestimate the web,” says Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra in his keynote at Google I/O this morning. He goes on to tell the story of a meeting he remembers when he was VP of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft five years ago. “We believed that web apps would never rival desktop apps. There was this small company called Keyhole, which made this most fantastic geo-visualization software

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"Jay expressed Mozilla's commitment to keeping the web open: "Anything should be hackable; anything should be scriptable. We need to get out of plugin prison.""