Google and other developers of new applications on the web are increasingly turning to Javascript and other technologies CNET calls "old school" in order to deliver exceptionally fast and flexible web services, like Google's new mapping application. The elephant in the room is the fear among many web publishers that using new standards championed by Microsoft will wend them down a proprietary path and increased reliance on the software giant, or at least on the use of its proprietary, although still popular, web browser.