Web applications - now only 15 years behind!

It seems to me that web applications are finally approaching where "rich client" applications were in the late 90s. People are finally pooling together abstractions and forming UI toolkits around them. 

What would be really great would be if we could skip 15 more years and stop using HTML altogether.

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