I understand the reluctance to give out the proprietary code that would be required to put an editor together. So, that pretty much shuts down any chance of an independent creating an editor.

I also understand the business model of wanting to keep as many people locked into PT as possible. But, the fact of the matter is, my old dual-core laptop with a 5400 rpm internal drive and no firewire is basically useless when it comes to using PT extensively. I'm sure a lot of people are in the same boat.

However, what if Avid set up some kind of web-based applet? They would control the code, the GUI would match the "official" one, and they could even charge (grrr) a small amount for it.

Programmer guys: would something like this be possible?

Edited: To say that I did vote on Ideascale months ago!