Here I am, blogging away on my easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor. I started (this morning) using Google’s page creator. I’ll let you see that site soon enough. I am a multi-daily user of Google Reader and Calendar. They fit my needs and I can deal with them being a little slower than a desktop app, trading off of course for the convenience of universe-wide access via the internet. These applications all require enormous javascript libraries to be downloaded, but their designers were generally savvy and one rarely notices. You can do all the ajaxing you want, and the combination of aggressive caching, compilation of a scripting language (yes I do know what I’m talking about, and yes that does happen), and ordered downloads means Sam Schmoe doesn’t notice.
But while I was posting a few minutes ago, I was interrupted, and rudely so. 
Three consecutive times.
I’m a pretty relaxed guy, so I shook it off the first time. The second time pissed me off and the third time I threw away my draft* and started on this post. I just got too angry.
So anyway, I’m wondering now about the future of the web. These online apps are here to stay, on not just as interfaces, but as the core themselves. Gmail does not, for instance, lay on top of a pop server set up by some syadmin (well yes, it does technically), but instead pop access is the advanced option. Web browsers have to adapt now. Firefox has tried, and the restore previous session works much better than expected, usually restoring all but the culprit tab responsible for my lock up. Still, their will and must be a more fundamental change on how browsers handle such large libraries. The market is calling you.
* Ok so as a part of this, all these apps do save progress. Nothing is really lost per se. But man is it annoying
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