WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines
The web is not open and becoming increasingly less so.People love to talk about how the web is about open standards and such, but it really is rather quite closed.It's driven less by standards and more by de-facto implementations.  Soon we can get rid of the standards committee and just talk to the implementers of webkit to define the "standard".And I think even worse has been the wholesale discounting of plugins.  I still strongly believe that being tied to JavaScript as really the only client side language is a mistake.  It's not a great IL and limiting the language for such a pervasive platform is scary.  I powerful plugin model would be, IMO, one of the best things to a truly powerful web.I wish the web was more open.  I wish that browsers were a truly extensible runtime that specified lower level abstractions, that allowed more innovation at the top of the stack.It feels like we're walking into the dark age of the internet.