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Re:Sammy.js, CouchDB, and the new web architecture by shabda on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @05:10PM (#824763)
> and a very, very large install base for the client runtime.

You are underetimating this. For evrything else, (air, java, Qt, C#) I have to start a new app. My firefox is always on.

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Re:Sammy.js, CouchDB, and the new web architecture by johnpaulett on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @10:57PM (#825237)
In most cases, we are just swapping some startup time (for java, qt, etc.) for download time in the heavy web 2.0 apps.
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