I've been programming through GUI abstractions since (writing parts of) the Atari fork of DR's GEM in the early 80s, and I guess my native fear of these things is recidivistic -- they used to be plumb scary for noobs.

Now I'm looking at a great free online book on Clutter programming ( http://www.openismus.com/documents/clutter_tutorial/0.8/docs/tutorial/html/ ) and I'm like OMG, OMG, runs on OpenGL, supports para-3D (2D actors in spaces with 'depth'), plays media, and everything is stages, actors, events and timelines like Flash. What's not to like about this?

It's written in C. Bindings are available for C++, C#, Ruby, Python, Vala and ... JavaScript.

Does that mean ... oh still my beating heart ... does that mean that if you get a netbook with Moblin and Clutter onboard, the Moblin web browser lets you implement Clutter stuff in JavaScript? Like, I can write javascript and someone can surf to my web page and get cute icons and animation and all this stuff?

Not that Flash and SilverLight won't run on netbooks - they probably will. But building Flash apps that interoperate with their host pages is a drag. This feels much neater, somehow - all the graphics live in the browser and you just use them.

Am I misinterpreting here?