The Web is Getting Hot Again?

With security firms recommending against using Internet Explorer activity in the browser world is heating up. Aaron Swartz has a great article on the new activity.

Considering HTML’s stagnation and pain, this may be hard to believe fully, but I’m serious. They talk about things like Digital Signatures, tabbed/wizard interfaces, rich text editing, spreadsheets, and drag and drop, not to mention simpler stuff like date inputs, sliders, and repeatable rows.

Fun stuff. I may have to revisit my desktop-apps-are-better than web-apps position.

UPDATE: Four, yes 4, new vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer announced by Secunia today.