Is buzzword the best online productivity app ?

https://buzzword.acrobat.com/

The first time I used buzzword it blew me away. Google docs gets all the attention but adobe's flash technology seems way ahead.

There are big advantages in using a runtime (like flash, silverlight or java) to deliver rich online productivity apps. The question is can open 100% javascript solutions like sproutcore, cappuccino and google web toolkit compete ? Clearly Apple and Google do not want to touch proprietary runtimes from Adobe, Microsoft or Sun. However is JavaScript on its own up to the task ?

For instance, could you build a complex video editing app (see the silverlight example bellow) with just AJAX ?



Surely Apple and Google need to hedge their bets and collaborate to create an open source runtime to compete directly with java, silverlight and flash/AIR.

see also:
http://seriousgamesblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/sproutcore-gets-competition-from.html
http://seriousgamesblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/building-flash-game-on-adobe-air.html
http://seriousgamesblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/promise-of-sproutcore-online-and.html

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