I have been praising HTML 5 everywhere lately.  I am very impressed despite the fact that they couldn't agree on a single video codec.  Canvas and WebSockets are going to revolutionize what web applications can do, so there is no wondering why Microsoft feels intimidated enough to be the very last major web browser not to support it what-so-ever.  Let's see, FF Chrome Opera and Safari all have it as do the Android and iPhone browsers.  For peat sakes, Google even released two different plugins that give HTML 5 support to IE, so you know it isn't a matter of not being able to do it with all the resources that MS has.  So what is the only other logical reason why they have been holding out?  Politics.  They are probably afraid of what this will do to MS office.  I couldn't even begin to imaging how wonderful Google Apps would be if they only had to write to HTML 5 compliant web browsers.  Also, just as HTML5 has been labeled the "Flash Killer", it probably yields Microsoft's Silverlight a lot less useful too.  Too bad for me and you....  Web 3.0 will have to wait just a bit longer until either Microsoft decides it is ready for it or until the world realizes that IE hasn't been the "best browser" for many years now and finally switches to Chrome.

Click this link to see some really cool HTML 5 Canvas tag examples.

I was amazed to read that the GWT was extended to support WebGL and can now successfully convert the Java version of Quake II to HTML5 and JavaScript.  Amazing!