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On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 13:37:47 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> and there was a thing that allows to use real applications 
> without
> installing them... java web start! way too ahead of it's time, 
> though...

Java got itself a bad reputation in the 90s by providing a really 
poor implementation.

The situation that is emerging now is that you can integrate 
different browser technologies, and that browser vendors 
cooperate, and that makes all the difference.