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Will AJAX Threaten Windows Desktop?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thin-clients-strike-back dept.

prostoalex writes "They are not your father's HTML pages anymore. AJAX interfaces are getting more complex and versatile, relieving the user of the necessity to reload the page, and thus are becoming more like your average desktop apps. The catch? AJAX apps work in any browser out there, making the OS layer a bit irrelevant. Will the trend threaten Microsoft desktop near-monopoly? Or are we hearing the story of poorly debugged device drivers again?"

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  1. AJAX will be easier to embrace&extend than jav by team99parody · · Score: 0, Troll
    I'm not worried at all about AJAX catching on.

    I'm fully confident in Microsoft's ability to put enhancements in IE8 that will break all Google and Yahoo AJAX projects in much the same way their JVM worked.

    Or, (with memories brought back by your java reference) for "security reasons" only allowing dynamic content that uses the safe managed code in the CLR/.NET runtime.