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Steven Côté wrote: > > what does .net allow me to do, run applications within a browser, i > > never really understood all of this, I am not a programmer. > > > Well, I am a programmer and I fail to understand it as well, so don't > feel bad. > > I had a chance to sit down with a friend of min the other week and he > tried to explain to me why .net was awesome and he failed to come up > with a single technical reason that could not be met using existing > technology. Reason: MS/Adobe and Apple have all joined in the 'standards' process to prevent this being done. There is absolutely no technical reason - after all whatever the browser is doing it is accessing your computer resources! Many seem to believe there are technical reasons which shows just how appalling programming has become since MS came to dominate. Tom te tom te tom > > I use the caveat word 'technical' because there are good business > reasons. I use the caveat word 'good' because those reasons usually > sound something like "everyone else uses .net, so now we have to as well." -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html