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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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In message <ir4om1$qeh$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> What I do not understand is how would doing the whole GUI in
> Javascript, running inside the browser, would be any better or
> different than say using Java applets, which is also a GUIcode
> running inside the browser.

Less stuff to install => less stuff to go wrong.