Hi everybody,
I was just hoping to see what everybody thinks about the potential benefits of a web-based IDE (ala Eclipse). Obviously, this wouldn't be a good solution for "hard core" developers, but perhaps for hobby coding, students, etc, such a "light" IDE that doesnt require any downloads would be a good alternative.

A friend of mine is developing such an application for his honours project at university, so I am starting to do some research into the commercial viability of such an app

All comments appreciated!
Alex