Can we get web sites to optimize as well? I use a slower laptop and a lot of sites are terrible. My old Sparc station (40mhz) had a better web experience in 1997 because than people cared about this.
Hey XML is ucky, we wouldn't want to just serve it directly and let XSL "hydrate" it in the native browser engine. It's a way better idea to download Doom 2 worth of JavaScript and use a data serialization format without built-in schema validation.
Why get all that capability for inside a native browser engine? We should reinvent all of it to run as JavaScript!
My hope is that with the growing adoption of Linux that MS takes note...