Joel Spolsky picks HTML as the development platform winner

Joel Spolsky: "The new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing." As examples, he cites Oddpost and Google's Gmail. Other innovation, he says, will come via Javascript tricks. Rich clients? Too much trouble to install and keep updated, he says. To me, this is all the more reason we need more standards for rich, innovative Web clients, instead of a new round of client operating system wars. It's a complicated landscape for developers and I recommend Joel's essay.