[citizenparker]

I wish someone would hire the people the team behind Pixlr to create an Office-replacement. Pixlr is the first (and to date, only) web application that has truly felt like working on a native, desktop application to me.

I think if someone were to adopt the Pixlr model and create a lightweight Flash-based solution to this, I think they would have the flexibility to create an experience as rich as Office, and start stealing customers.

However, I'm more and more impressed with the Cappucino apps I'm seeing, so there are clearly many possible solutions to this problem.

[cpr]

It seems that Cappucino will provide the same quality of experience as Flash, while avoiding the serious downsides of the latter (mostly proprietary technology lock-in, but also just general misbehavior compared to platform apps, as Francisco points out so well.).