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		bokonist on Sept 19, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joel explains how a new monopoly will emerge aroun... I got the sense Joel was talking about an SDK that does not require a plugin. Otherwise it seems Flash and Silverlight already meet his requirements.

palish on Sept 19, 2007 [–]

Hmm.. They meet the requirements to an extent. They're really little islands of functionality. I'm talking about a plugin that can react to and manipulate HTML elements, persist across page loads, and doesn't have browser-specific quirks.

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