Some recent wow-experiences in the web-browser:

• bookmarklets at work in relation to googlemaps. (via Sam)
• ajax (via tomk)
• And closer to home the fine HTMLArea wysiwyg editing experience integrated with the features of our daisy cms and related to it: Bruno's recent work on the nav-tree editor.

The web continuous to be a cradle for technological innovation. People knowing me can easily guess that I account the free information sharing attitude on the web as the main enabler for this. However the mere fact that the simplicity of the web-model forces/challenges people to think out of the box sounds like a decent additional explanation. (which is probably why I keep giving the hard core ReST-addicts some slack in their continued stress on the-way-the-web-works... the border with starting to be a block on innovation is probably thin as Sam seems to be hinting...)

The downside of fast change isn't as romantic though: Every now and then the high change rate itself is characterised by a decent amount of chaos: (warning: incomplete list)

• URI-encoding dillema's (Sam again)
• Backgrounder and outcome on the recent IDN spoofing.
• on the common wrong (according to spec) practice of nesting <ul> directly (recently learned from Bruno)
• or some grab out of the common user agent problems