Ajax

Since I wrote about GUI toolkits it really seems world is further and further moving towards the web. I believe thick GUIs still have their place, where super fast performance like what wxwidgets can offer is required, however you can do lot with Ajax now, here's a little demo I wrote using Ruby Rails and prototype libraries, it has movable windows, drag-drop items, "push" updates, in-place edits, on the fly stylesheet changing etc.
Here's a screenshot:

This link may or may not work because it's simply running at my house on anold laptop...
http://nexavibes.maanpaa.com