[cr0sh]

I recall playing with it, when I first heard about it: "You mean I can create a native-looking app that's actually browser-based?"...

This had to be sometime in the mid-late 1990s?

I recall the documentation about everything was "ok-ish" - enough for me to create a simple "app" and have it communicate with a "backend" using POST (IIRC) - nothing fancy, but I could tell it actually worked.

But at the time, I had to shelve it - and I was working with a VB6 application for my employer, and I mostly forgot about it. It was always in the back of my mind, though - and I knew that Firefox, Thunderbird, etc - still had support...

Today, it was just a legacy technology that never went anywhere, and it amazes me why it didn't. It's yet another example of something "ahead of its time"; it was frustrating to me back then as to why nobody was using it and making it better - especially when there was a "reference app suite" right there!

But no - we had to wait another decade or so for everyone else to "catch up" to the concept. Sigh.