Mh, a small note: in the very past of IT DocUI was the norm. Actually WebUI are a limited and limiting DocUI, limited by the fact the user can't easy bend it to

Mh, a small note: in the very past of IT DocUI was the norm. Actually WebUI are a limited and limiting DocUI, limited by the fact the user can't easy bend it to his/her own needs and desire, limiting because the WebVM underneath, the whole stack is NOT made for end-user programming as classic systems was. Just try to look at a modern Emacs with org-mode and elisp: links. It's a DocUI, with some limits, but far more simpler than a WebApp in a local WebVM. And it's pretty local with full filesystem access and so on. I'm curious how many more DECADES will be needed to reinvent the wheel discovering that classic local DocUIs are far superior and can be networked as we with technically. My own local fast GMail is notmuch-emacs, and it's not one, it's fully integrated and integrable by myself with few SLoC in my desktop. It's not so nice for some aspects not because of the model but because the little development base. If we invest a fraction of the effort put in modern web the classic desktop would outshine any other tech.