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And now that I'm past my surprise, I can evaluate. It looks like it's really not ready for production. There are all kinds of weird issues. For instance, in the webworkerstatt sandbox[1] (and I was using Chrome as they asked), the text box rendered far-right more than a page of scrolling was required. Upon refreshing the page, the text box was where it was supposed to be, but there was lots of additional empty space (empty content that cause scrollbars to be present) below and to the right of the application. Also in that app, positioning the cursor inside the textbox then clicking on the "car" (that cluster of ovals) causes text to be selected between the two points you just clicked.

Aside from that, I'm sure this is all controllable in the framework, but there are maddening design choices. They are intercepting right-clicks. They are by-default opening links in new windows. Every bit of text is in carat mode. The loading animation is rather annoying. With all of this, I'm not even going to look at what it's like to develop in the environment.

[1] http://lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/sandbox/san...

This project has been around an extremely long time (I believe since around 2008). I'm not sure it's even being updated at this point.

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