Joshua Juran <[email protected]> wrote at 00:53 on 2008-03-25: > It's time we realized that Web applications are not hypertext > documents, and actually created a system which was *designed* to > deliver them. As long as we're forcing users to install extra > software anyway, why bottleneck everything through the Web browser? > Because we've always done it that way?
Isn't this more or less the premise of Sun's Java Web Start? Has anyone actually seen a JWS app in the wild (apart from Sun's download manager)? ObHate: Gentoo's "sandbox" utility, which is a fiendishly clever little item which when broken (in a horribly nonspecific way) requires a rebuild of the kernel, gcc and glibc (thus far) to fix. Hate. S
