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So I read a post on Ryan Stewart’s blog about Ajaxian’s post on the death of ajax. And I’m thinking to myself, is this deja vu or what? Alot of the dhtml developers like myself already came to this conclusion years ago. Don’t treat hypertext like rich internet apps, its not. Hypertext was designed to link documents with basic formatting. Real internet applications can’t be contained to the browser. If you ever wanted to change the posture of your web application to a more desktop like application you would have to create an entirely new application, for multiple operating systems no less. Lets take Google reader for example. Great app…slow as hell. But I can create an app just like it in c# and it smokes. So what’s my point? Its pretty simple actually. Ajax was designed to improve the user experience. I see it being used to create full blown apps which are annoying because they’re introducing alot more problems than solutions.

So the conclusion I came up with back then is the same one I have now. Html apps suck period.