Steve Gillmor does a good job connecting the dots between Google and Adam Bosworth. I'm not sure I've bought into the idea of universal client-side cache like Alchemy. For example, Bosworth makes the comment to Gillmor, "Given that it’s a cache of XML nodes...." Since when? How many sites are valid HTML? Few.
Now if you're considering Alchemy for a limited number of sites (e.g. GMail or an MS Office replacement), then that's a different story. It does seem useful in that category of the web that's applications...not just something to which you surf. (For more information on that topic see the Paradigm Shift.) I've got to admit Google has done some great client-side-like (or rich client) functionality with JavaScript in GMail. If it could be used off-line, that would be sweet.
Posted by rob at August 5, 2004 04:46 PM