A pretty long article which one sentence summary can be: Windows had lost a lot by loosing backward compatibility and creating lots of new API stuff.
While reading I've thought how I like programming in vacuum or at least programming company inside stuff. I don't have to care of IE6, of specific configuration of shared hosting server, etc.
I consider HTML5 offline storage a great idea, but if you want to build an offline webapp not only for yourself and for geeks, but for a broader audience, for now you have to implement google gears also. You cannot rely on HTML5 <audio> and <video> support, you have to add flash as an alternative player.
If you want to build an every day use webapp for thousands or millions of people you have to support not only disabled images and, but also users without javascript (and even better without html rendering and having cookies disabled).
Gmail works, needs only cookies. Looks perfect in Links
You also can try yahoo mail with disabled javascript. In firefox it looks pretty funny, huh. (page is reloading every second and html is rendering half a second.) In Links it looks at least usable.
Hotmail also works with disabled javascript, but... you would need javascript to sign in. So it was not tested in Links.
I am talking about Links web browser. I really believe all webapps and web pages with vitally important content, should be accessible from this web browser.
But NEVER ever tell this too people writing technical requirements!! =)
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