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Re:Microsoft picks HTML5 over Silverlight for Internet apps by gruseom on Friday October 29, 2010 @03:36PM (#1848687)
Adobe got all the predictions right

That's funny, I was arguing exactly the opposite recently:

  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1798679
As for JS becoming Actionscript, good god I hope not. And I bet not, too: V8 is far faster than AVM2 and doesn't have any of that stuff.
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Re:Microsoft picks HTML5 over Silverlight for Internet apps by mahmud on Friday October 29, 2010 @04:54PM (#1848992)
You and I are gonna have a private conversation about it. Can't have a Flash hater in my circle of friends, no Sir.

(yeah, that "bigthingism" thing is one part Flash :-)

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