It's like the old Chinese curse, may you live in interesting times. Still, for folks interested or involved in web development we have several technologies and market ideas intersecting.
HTML5 and CSS3 are staring to become usable as the adoption rate of newer browsers becomes significant.
Even the older browsers can be persuaded to talk HTML5 with the addition of clever javascript.

See http://www.storiesinflight.com/html5/ for some useful code.

Also see the book -- Introducing HTML5
By Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp.

Apple has a proprietary eco-system that makes Microsoft look like an open standards supporter. However, unlike Microsoft Apple is stylish, innovative, and a trend setter.
I am not sure if the iPad is an oversized iPod or an undersized laptop but whatever it is it has sparked a web revolution.
We developers now need to think about apps and online applications as facilities that can be mixed and matched.

Inernet Explorer version 9 is almost here.
The advance publicity is promising all kinds of improvements over the 8, 7, 6 etc.
It remains to be seen if the reality lives up to the hype but Microsoft is making encouraging noises about being standards friendly.

I hope they mean the W3 standards.
Also I wonder, does the new privacy feature cause any gotchas?