"Finally, Javascript is clunky and limited in what it can do. It is hard to debug. It is clamped down for security reasons (you can't access the file system, for example). After a few hundered lines, Javascript code starts getting unmanagable and unmaintainable. So it becomes increasingly complex to create even basic desktop-app like functionality using Javascript. I can't even start to imagine somebody creating Microsoft Word like text editor using Javascript and AJAX."
I'm not sure, but isn't that what Writely is? I personally don't like Ajax, just like I don't like Flash.
