CMS OR NO CMS FOR ART & BUSINESS?

Conrast http://the-raft.com/fsol/ to http://www.raft.vmg.co.uk/fsol/ .

Both sites present themselves as the homepage of the fsol (wikipedia links to another site as the official fsol site), yet the former is an e-business venture and the latter has an artistic edge. this is one reason why this juxtaposition is interesting; another is that it also entails looking at these two systems from the perspective of the underlying motor: the former website would be practically impossible to implement with no CMS, whereas the latter seems to strive very efficiently without one. of course, i've no idea how often, or not, the latter is also updated, changed, having new content added or its form transformed. what do you think?

WEB APPZ Vs. DESKTOP APPZ

"ThinkFree Online is, simply put, Office without the Microsoft, a collection of free online apps that support and contain most features found in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. ThinkFree has just released a major upgrade to its features, bumping its online storage to 1GB for each user and adding a lightweight AJAX-based collaboration feature. ExtremeTech has an interesting review of ThinkFree Online's applications and features which reveals a lot to like about this improved webware and, while it may have its occasional quirks, can be great for those who want to edit and create documents on the fly." [via /.]

...To what extent and under which circumstances are web applications going to replace desktop applications?

AJAX & THE KEN BURNS EFFECT

"IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting project posted that shows how to design a client-side slide show using the 'Ken Burns Effect.' From the article: 'If the Web 2.0 revolution has one buzzword, it's Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax). [...] Here, you discover how to build XML data sources for Ajax, request XML data from the client, and then dynamically create and animate HTML elements with that XML.'" [via /.]

NEXT IN BROWSER DEVELOPMENT, HIGH DPI WEBSITES?

"In a post at the WebKit blog, Dave Hyatt raises interesting points about the future of web development and browsers. He says, that with screens getting more and more pixels, it is imperative website design takes the next step: High DPI Website rendering. This could mean that a CSS pixel (px) is rendered as a 2x2 pixelblock. In the article he also mentions WebKit will be providing possibilities to use SVG for all kinds of purposes, like backgrounds. He calls upon other browser developers to take part in the discussion so that 'concrete standards in this area can be hammered out.'" [via /.]