[BNM] Netscape to be officially retired.

[paul perrin]

First email of the new year!

Gears - thats an early beta of a javascript data remoting API isn't it? MS
have been doing industrial strength data remoting for some time now within a
fully integrated IDE.

ISTM that gears is just pointing the herd towards the rich pastures that MS
developers have been grazing for some time now.

I dont see why silverlight should be IE only - if there isnt already a
standalone runtime engine, I am sure there soon will be.

The open sourcers (and pure anti MS'ers) shouldn't be worring about which
technolgy is currently better (eitherside may have a lead for a while)
rather they should be considering what strategy will keep them in the game
against a commercial organisation whose sole purpose is to win the game.


On 31/12/2007, Dave Phelan <dave.phelan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 31, 2007 12:46 AM, paul perrin <paul at idltd.com> wrote:
> > Anyway - with the advent of silverlight, browsers are history.
> >
> > Local/Remote/OnLine/Offline - all irrelevant, an app is an app, the user
> > doesn't need to know or care how it is implemented - one interface shall
> > bind them all.
>
> Oh, so it's like google gears, except for IE only?
> (showing my ignorance here)
>
> Dave Ph
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