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"Write once, run everywhere" is the web applications promise. Unfortunately we have a lot of work to do to make web applications comparable to native apps.

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"Write once, run anywhere" was Sun's slogan for Java.

Google's following through on that lofty goal in a reasonable way. Assuming one uses their product lines.

Too bad its still Java though :p (with many advances in sandboxing and security), but I guess Google/Android didn't really have much of an option back then and I'm honestly not sure what would be the better choice now.

As long as you didn't need a user interface :-) Back then, you were lucky to get any Applet working without crashing the browser. From what I remember, GD was pretty much the only way to draw anything besides ASCII art. Oh and that Macromedia... shudders

Does "everywhere" include e.g. Firefox? Also, no, you don't have to make web applications comparable to native apps. At all. Just make native.

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