I'm a web dev. My clients aren't willing to have websites that tell (potentially locked-down) visitors to contact their system administrators, but my clients are willing to have websites that offer a painless, almost invisible upgrade.

The death of Chrome Frame means that I'm probably going to be dragged back to writing for IE8. Time to dust off those polyfills.

There are technologies that are successful when they obsolete themselves, and then there are other technologies, like tent poles, that you don't appreciate until they vanish. Like Google Chrome Frame. Like Google Reader. Now we're all just thrashing around in a pile of useless canvas. (Or <canvas/>.)