After an interesting post on MS and the Windows API, Joel put up some odd things today. In a wish list post for web stuff, he asks for this:

Javascript features to do fast REST queries back to the server, so I can implement things like a lush spell checker with the dictionary on the server. It should be possible to have a 300,000 employee directory on the server and create a web app that has a list box where you can type the first few letters of an employee's name and see a filtered list as fast as you can type on the screen.

Yeah, sure. On an ideal network connection with low latency, maybe. Unless you cache that dictionary locally, performance is going to suck eggs way, way too often. Some of his other wishlist items are unlikely for a variety of reasons...