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Comment by adammarkey

The heavyweight category needs to be split up.

Technologies like flex / silverlight / javafx / open laszlo use compiled binaries to run their applications via a browser plugin (flash, java vm, silverlight vm).

The other products in the heavyweight category utilize HTML / Javascript and don't require plugins. That's a big difference that this person seemed to miss...

parent adammarkey 17 years ago

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