However I’ve only just discovered your personal blog. Finding your blog & in parituclar this post at the top has been remarkably serendipitous. I engaged in a bit of a war with another commenter on reddit over the recent Google O3D plugin release. My claim is that the web as a platform provides all the necessary hooks for growth, and that we should continue investing in the platform and growing it out, rather than developing independent plugins. My contender was insisting the web is a second class platform and that plugins were the answer, developing alternative paths for evolution.

He put forth a number of claims of things that the web doesnt do, and, thinking to the FOWA 2009 Ajaxian presentation you and Ben gave, I feel like most of his claims are easily doable on the web. One of the few items I felt the web honestly had zero capability to do, that the web must adopt, was drag and drop between apps & webapps. Its something I had never considered before! And I couldnt recall any place where it had been heavily considered. Hearing that indeed, drag and drop was on someone’s radar, that, indeed, drag and drop was being worked on, well, it was a fantastic experience, and I thank you for so serendipitously renewing my resolve that the web ecosystem is the extensible base we really ought to be building from and that developers really are pushing forwards even in the places most have not considered.

programming.reddit.com thread starts at http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8eaij/google_releases_javascriptbased_3d_api/c090irt

thank you!,
rektide@voodoowarez.com