On: Atlas: a visual IDE for desktop-like web apps

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HTML and "the web" were designed as a simple information-sharing platform based on hyperlinked static text documents.

Building actual business applications on top of this, even if you know how the web works, has always been pretty much a kludge.

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Or any kind of application thanks to the mess of standards that web developers have had to deal with. Atlas and Flex are an imperfect workaround for that problem.