I have never seen a QT application making chunks of text disappear somewhere between my keyboard and my screen, but the front page of google keeps randomly doing it to this day.
If google can't get basic text input right on the web, there's something very broken there.
It indeed amazes me how screwed up the big dogs' web apps are. The web & phone version of MS-Outlook was notorious for about 2 years. They did gradually mostly fix it, but it was a painful journey. The limits of current web standards have to be part of the cause for this gap; otherwise having a mound of money to throw at a site would work. There are many other corporate apps I could make similar complaints about.
If google can't get basic text input right on the web, there's something very broken there.