> If Javascript was bad for innovation, I sure don't see it.
This is a fallacy: in absence of a peek at some alternative world where something else was available, you can't tell that javascript improved or worsened the innovation rate.
It seems pretty reasonable to observe the desktop world, though, since it has the properties under discussion, and ask ourselves whether it's easier to deploy an application to a wide audience there or on the web.
Well, the problem is that this confounds all the properties of "the desktop world" with the properties of another client-side substitute for Javascript (like, say, Dart or some language using NaCl)
This is a fallacy: in absence of a peek at some alternative world where something else was available, you can't tell that javascript improved or worsened the innovation rate.