'a bit' of time keeping an eye on how they are going or how they will be applications of the future ... and indeed around the net there is' a lot of movement in this regard ..
are the Rich Client Platform based on Eclipse engine that left permanently around August ... and then the Web Application that run through the browser: and of these there are three types:
- java web application: file.war are using the platform and Java Web Start
- XUL and derivatives .. . now in my view, very promising + and other framework based on the mozilla
- new born, like GMail using a kind of good hacking technologies already 'available ...
- using Flash and XML Web Service with a pinch of
-> http://johnvey.com/features/gmailapi/
Other interesting stuff soon ...