>Is the stated below still true? What has changed since the time that article has been written? What is still to come?

It's my opinion that the opinions expressed by the authors of the article are, for the most part, valid and largely in line with reality as it exists today.

An interesting read. Thanks for posting it.

I agree strongly that use of current browser technology is years, if not decades, behind the desktop interfaces that modern tools, such as VFP, are able to produce.