>>25I think a program is much bigger than just the user interface. I personally don't care that web technologies are used as an application platform. It's totally obvious to me that the world needed an application platform like this:
* a way of presenting applications in a declarative manner
* cross platform
* easy to distribute and reference the disparately located resources
Java web technology was a possible platform for computing like this but it didn't pan out in history.
As for you, are you being forced to use web applications in your daily work? If so you can suck it up, you're getting paid for a job. If not, then I'd tell you to install Noscript and block all these applications from running.