Both of these posts, Atwood's and Braude's, are complete messes. Braude tries to compare the development of entire desktop applications with the UI development

Both of these posts, Atwood's and Braude's, are complete messes. Braude tries to compare the development of entire desktop applications with the UI development/document presentation of web applications. Web UI development should be compared to UI development on the desktop. I wish I could use Swing/GTK/Qt for my web UIs, or write my blog with Word, but instead we have to use HTML and DOM scripting. The web is a crappy UI framework with an excellent distribution method. The internal differences of desktop applications and web applications are typically a matter of scale. "Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript." Dear god, no! The browser is not the web. The future is not photoshop in a browser, it's a photoshop UI (hopefully developed with a rational desktop GUI framework) with a network connection (HTTP?) to a processing server. Of course, that's not particularly new, it's X11.