I think things are still moving in the direction we expected. Java applets and ActiveX were horrible experiences, that's why they didn't survive, not because d

I think things are still moving in the direction we expected. Java applets and ActiveX were horrible experiences, that's why they didn't survive, not because desktop apps are fundamentally better. And DHTML is just a different name for webpages that use Javascript - that was doing pretty well last time I checked. Google Docs and Gmail replaced traditional desktop apps for me a long time ago. Sure, not everyone has moved, and it will certainly be a long time before the enterprise sector throws out their desktop apps, but in the consumer space many people just use web based mail clients. According to year old Litmus stats [0] 31% of email was webmail (and how much of the outlook traffic is from office workers?). Xero have done an amazing job of pushing into a space dominated by and old desktop app (Sage). People are moving, slowly but surely. I know that desktop apps are not going to vanish soon but it's not fair to say that web apps haven't gained much traction. Any issues you're seeing in the experience at the moment will be smoothed out. There's mind boggling amounts of resource being poured into making web apps faster (V8 etc) and the emerging frameworks for rich interfaces (Angular etc) are going to enable a whole new breed of web app. [0] http://litmus.com/blog/email-client-market-share-stats-infographic-june-2012/email-client-market-share-june-2012 http://litmus.com/blog/email-client-market-share-stats-infog...