Benjamin Lafreniere over at the University of Waterloo leads an interesting project called AdaptableGIMP. It is an attempt to provide more user friendly user interface for complex applications by focusing on users and their needs instead of on the features of the application.
Having money in my pockets gives me (a bit of) freedom. I can exchange the money for a chocolate or for a travel ticket. I can give it to a friend or to a charity. I do not have to ask for permission to do any of those things. Except it does not work online.
Long time ago, I have made this web display animated previews of uploaded cursors using the APNG file format. This is an extension of the popular PNG image format that can do animation. It is very easy to create in PHP. And then I waited for Chrome and Internet Explorer to catch up with Firefox and Opera and support APNG. And then I waited some more...