Comment Web Apps are Terrible but Zero-Integration (Score 1) 194
I'm with you. My pet peeve with Google Docs is that the page randomly scrolls to different parts of the doc while I'm editing--and not due to anyone else editing.
Web apps are awful, and I'm saying this as a professional author of them. Maybe in another 5 years, we'll be back where we were in 1984, UI-wise. With an infrastructure that wasn't designed to handle them, web apps are also harder to write than desktop ones. Their one saving grace is that you don't have to go around porting or installing them, which can be significant in a cross-platform environment. As for me, my UI Nazi tendencies keep me on local apps whenever possible. See http://www.subethaedit.net/ for how apps ought to be.