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Re:The X-Windows Disaster (1994) by gopalv on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:44PM (#22496629)
> Applications on remote machines can download their own special JavaScript

Depending on what era we imagine writing this, this could be a Java applet or a Flash application or an ActiveX component.

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Re:The X-Windows Disaster (1994) by XMPPwocky on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:13PM (#22496965)
Yeah, but "SPAs" based on Java/Flash/ActiveX weren't nearly as ubiquitous as web-based SPAs are now, were they?
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Re:The X-Windows Disaster (1994) by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:43PM (#22500823)
Flash was
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