At least you always can use css version if there are some font issues: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/css-triangle/

I just realized i totally fucked up my last two vacations. Needless to say i've been working.

I used to write 10-20kloc projects in javascript. Don't know if its large enough for you but i dont feel any problem to maintain large js applictions written by good programmers. Try CoffeeScript anyway. BTW "jQuery programmer" sounds obnoxiously we are javascript programmers.

it run extremely slow on my celeron SU2300 @ 1.2GHz, 8gb ram, google chrome @ ubuntu 12.04 not playable

It's just you: http://i.imgur.com/XuQL9.png

I can run multiple instances in parallel fullspeed on a shitty mac. If you don't have a GPU (or a blacklisted one), expect your browsers to run like shit.