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I just don't get this stuff. The browser just isn't a great place to be running applications like that. It's a good place for consuming document based data. At the point where you have delivered an application that doesn't need to transfer any data as html-over-http, why would it be running inside the browser?

Maybe it's just that quake is a bad example use of this technology.

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Right now, there is a Web site (pogo.com) where people actually pay money to play pointless, boring games (such as Solitaire, Mahjong, etc), all of which are written in Java.

A similar Web site, using Native Client, could roll out higher quality games (like Quake) and charge higher prices for access.

It all comes down to the fact that for Google the browser is an advertisement delivery tool. Hence every browser improvement has the potential to increase revenues for them.

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