It's 2007 and smart people stopped separating "desktop" and "online" applications a long time ago, because it is pointless: the best approach to solving any pro

It's 2007 and smart people stopped separating "desktop" and "online" applications a long time ago, because it is pointless: the best approach to solving any problem is always picking the proper balance of server/desktop horsepower/capabilities. Desktops are very powerful. People forget (or never realize) how powerful their computers are. For a long time only games have been taking advantage of all those millions of transistors. I really hope that next generation of browsers will start moving towards that direction. For instance: if you have a flash movie occupying 100% of the page, it becomes simply unusable if a user maximizes the window, even on 1280x1024. Isn't that ridiculous? At our age and time, a simple 2D vector graphics plays at pathetic 5-7 frames per second... (even if he's got a $700 video card) And something tells me it's not entirely Macromedia/Adobe's fault. It's changing, though. And Google/Microsoft are moving towards that direction. Good (early) example can be iTunes or apps built on GoogleGear platform.