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The Network IS the Computer: Ajax on Desktop

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

DESKTOP APPS BUILT LIKE THE WEB One of the upcoming big technologies in Microsoft's new OS ("Windows Vista") is XAML - an XML language for defining user interfaces. Mozilla also has a similar one called XUL. All of these are trying to accomplish the same thing - make rich applications run ...

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A Standalone Web Application

Friday, May 13th, 2005

This may sound kind of strange but I recently ran across a new web application that is not meant to be used over the web. Confused yet? Well this application is an HTML file with lots of complicated DOM/DHTML/CSS stuff that is meant to be used and saved on your ...

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