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If someone would ask me what's the coolest application I've seen in years, I'd say Google Earth. It's a desktop application and it's free and it's fat as in fat client. And even if some of their applications are thin, the AJAX technology make them look fat and rich. If you'll add the ability to remotely download Java Virtual Machine to your desktop/PDA/phone, we can cut the umbilical cord between you and Microsoft Windows.

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Yakov Fain commented on the 31 Dec 2005

Told ya! Check out the Writely Web word processor:

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serguei bakhteiarov commented on the 7 Oct 2005

AJAX current problem is its browser based legacy. It is a nightmare to debug AJAX apps (as any JavaScript) to be used in different browser. So, the majority of AJAX apps are based on IE (read Windoz again), however Google maps works on Firefox as well.

You thesis about PDA based AJAX apps is kinda a stretch at this point at least... I hate these:

if (browser == "IE")
blah blah
else {if (browser == "Firefox")

yada yada

Well, how about whole bunch of other browsers?

Now, it is really rare event to meet a serious JavaScript programmer nowadays, I hope we will see Java developers inflow into rows of them soon...

Overall, Google change the rules and I love this, it spooks M$FT as well as all these telcom dudes with free broadband WiFi, it is just "kick ass" for these dudes, they really need it big time!

I just hope sometime in the future Google kick asses of oil dudes as well :-)

cheers,

serge

R commented on the 7 Oct 2005

Behind the scenes..MS as usual has most developers starting to make their reference platform .net to SQL Server. plus Linux makes Sun(the setting SUN) and a couple of apps for Google...so what...MS .net is at a tipping point and from there once again it will be 70% .net and 10% Java...for as far as you can see. Java had it's chance and didn't get over the hump and won't now.

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