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A quote from Dave Thomas

2007 at 11:33 AM
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Recently, folks have been trying to [make] browser-based applications more interactive using technologies such as Ajax. To my mind, this is just a stop-gap until we throw the browser away altogether — Ajax is just lipstick on a pig.

— Dave Thomas

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smw
June 1, 2007

Obvious?

Everyone who believes in software as a service wants this to happen eventually. Although Mr. Thomas makes this sound like a bad thing, it's quite possible that computers with a descent browser will eventually be the modern version of the dumb terminal.

The new Palm Foleo is a perfect example of this.

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