It's an issue of scalability. A decent webserver can handle a million hits an hour without much difficulty, but if it has to maintain a million open socket connections (which it would if it was a site that people liked to keep open, like/.), then you would quickly run into resource problems.
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Well, if there is any code for hardware acceleration, that would be very nice to have in a linux GUI, and it could be ported to GNOME and KDE.
Lets hope it sounds better than DNA music. That was tried a while ago and was horrible.
It's an issue of scalability. A decent webserver can handle a million hits an hour without much difficulty, but if it has to maintain a million open socket connections (which it would if it was a site that people liked to keep open, like /.), then you would quickly run into resource problems.