What the hell people?!

I've spent 2 days looking at Adobe AIR, ASP.Net, Joomla, Drupal, Dot Net
Nuke, JavaFX, and so on......and it just sickens me.

What's the problem here? All I want to do is write a desktop/webservices
app and stream it to the end user's desktop.

We had activeX. It wasn't perfect for streaming apps, but it was a damned
sight better than anything on the market - and Microsoft is killing it.

What the hell, people? Why is it so damned hard to give developers a gui
development platform like Visual Basic (old school or .Net) that streams an
application to end users? Thinstall claims to do it, but I am not sure that
it does so over the internet - I think it is meant for local lans.

This web application thing is a fucking joke. What we need is a complete
break from the broken web's old tools of HTML, XHTML, CSS, etc. (which are
all simply hacks layered on top of a network created for TEXT
transmissions). We need a new platform that utilizes TCPIP networks
(internal or internet) to deliver actual, functional, kick-ass desktop
applications.

This may mean a new, open standards/source browser that hosts applications.
It may mean a new protocol for sending the apps to the new browser and
having them run there.

I don't know exactly what it will entail...but I do know this.... The web
is fucking broken when it comes to producing server hosted, no-install
desktop/webservices based applications that don't look like some 3 year old
coded them.

Give me a platform people. A REAL platform. Not some hack...some childish
looking webpages that can't hold a candle to any desktop app a 12 year old
can code in .Net.

Damn......work with me people!

jim