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By: Oscar Emilio Antolinez C

Las grandes compañías deberían unir esfuerzos para crear una tecnología estándar, cada vez tenemos mas lenguajes de programación, aplaudo la innovación, pero siento que por tantos esfuerzos...

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By: Andy

Lame. The link is to an article in some magazine for suits. Show me the code, and if not that, something that will actually let me evaluate this beyond just what some talking head is willing to print...

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By: Ryan Gahl

quote: “but underneath it’s still all this junky HTML, Document Object Model, CSS, all that stuff, where 30 years ago, we knew how to do that stuff cleanly with a dynamic programming language and a...

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By: k

For those of you who are clued into corporate speak, let me break down this blog quota filling post: a guy in SUN LABS (yes, the research part of Sun) is INVESTIGATING something that “could spawn...

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By: Joe Larson

Flair is not a great project name choice when your company name is Sun. http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=sun+flair hmmm… is this an astronomy project?

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By: Jim Grandy

Dan Ingalls is a researcher, and a distinguished one at that. I think he deserves better from the Ajaxian crowd than this. For more information, google “Dan Ingalls Smalltalk”, or read his Wikipedia...

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By: cdr

if theyre abstracting away XHTML, the DOM, CSS, AJAX, and letting you write an app in a simple manner in Javsascript, all from one place (the server?, the client?) that could be cool… but i don’t have...

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By: carmen

well, he was sort of stirring up a bees nest with those comments passing off virtually all web related technology as ‘junky’…

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By: Vance Dubberly

2 things. 1) I’m amazed that anybody would defend web technologies such as CSS and HTML in the context of Application Development. They are great for publishing ( which is their lineage ) but are...

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By: Brad Neuberg

I think this sounds cool; I’d love to know more details though — the article is very light on actually knowing what he is building. I always support revisiting what we assume is true to try a different...

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By: Brad Neuberg

Wow, Dan invented some pretty amazing stuff: bitblit is the basic way bits are blitted to the screen fast enough so that we can have graphical user-interfaces, while Smalltalk is the granddaddy of the...

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By: Maury

“what you would call, sort of, collaborative object development, that kind of thing” What in the sweet christmas cake does THAT mean? “Sort of collaborative object devlopment?” Sort of..how?

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By: Ryan Gahl

OK OK, he’s not a quack :-), sorry Dan. What I meant to say is, “…this guy’s using the word junky incorrectly when using it to refer to web design principles in comparison to desktop graphics models...

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By: Philip Weaver

I’m a Java Swing fanboy and it sounds like I’ll be interested in Flair when it arrives. IMO, GWT has missed it’s mark but having a styling API instead of requiring CSS. Until Flair arrives, the closest...

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