I have created quite a few frontends in Extjs in the past few years. It's a fabulous tooklit, totally extendable. For me, however, there's a large missing piece to this puzzle which is an interface designer much like Qt's Designer or Apple's Interface Builder. Having the ability to get instantaneous feedback while laying out and tweaking things is essential. The Cappuccino guys are supposed to have something this year, which is great. Apple's improved the usefulness of Dashcode on SL with bindings feature, but the IDE itself is still too unstable for real development IMHO. If Apple could wrap-up existing bugs related to code generation in Dashcode and make the thing bulletproof like IB, I'd be a happy clam â" even with a limited (as shipped) Parts library.

I definitely think there is a substantive issue here. People will always copy each other. It seems that's the nature of creation. I feel that we will always butt heads with each other until law takes into account dependent relationship. This being that no ne is alone, no idea is original, something does not come from nothing. If something, let's say Goofy, came from nothing then everything comes from everything because any cause can be appropriated to any effect, ie the Buddhist consequence of excess. I wonder what would happen if we stopped protecting this non-existent idea of ownership. Free Goofy!