Comments on: Talkin’ About a Revolution http://www.jamesward.com/2008/04/23/talkin-about-a-revolution/ Rich Internet Applications | Flex | Adobe AIR | Java | Open Source | Linux | Enterprise Software | Cloud Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:25:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: barry.b http://www.jamesward.com/2008/04/23/talkin-about-a-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-106795 barry.b Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:49:40 +0000 http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/?p=264#comment-106795 one thing that's missed in the x-platform capabilities is the fact that it becomes more robust a platform as a result. It has to work under all sorts of adverse conditions, and while that's hard work for the runtime developers, and you miss out on enhanced platform-specific capabilities, x-platform makes better solutions in the long run. example: the XMLHTTPRequest javascript object had been available for years for IE only. It took the take up of Mozilla and Safari for it to become the ubiquitous Ajax. viva la revolution. one thing that’s missed in the x-platform capabilities is the fact that it becomes more robust a platform as a result. It has to work under all sorts of adverse conditions, and while that’s hard work for the runtime developers, and you miss out on enhanced platform-specific capabilities, x-platform makes better solutions in the long run.

example: the XMLHTTPRequest javascript object had been available for years for IE only. It took the take up of Mozilla and Safari for it to become the ubiquitous Ajax.

viva la revolution.

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