It's not always true that the neatest, most advanced technology ends up winning most of the market share. There are other reasons which get in the way. Sometimes, the less advanced solutions end up winning - and evolve in order to become more solid and established.

'This is a website accompanying the Widget Environment library. An easy to use window environment written in JavaScript to give your webpages the look and feel of a desktop. Features include: basic window behaviour (close, maximize, minize), a navigation menu with submenu's, a listing of all opened windows (navigation bar) and clickable desktop icons.'

"I've only just come across this, perhaps the best summary of why using Flash is the wrong way to create Web apps..."

"This past Friday I gave my first Google Tech Talk on Building a JavaScript Library. [...] Please let me know if this talk interested you as I’m trying to gauge what interests other web developers - because all of this stuff fascinates me (JavaScript programming, open source projects, etc.)."