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The browser’s role is ever increasing. It already has become far more than a mere tool for accessing information. Today we use it to communicate, to collaborate, and to interface with applications.

What’s Google’s Native Client SDK? A way to develop web apps that use native code like C or C++. This, plus OpenGL-powered hardware graphics acceleration? Google’s world, where the browser is the OS, ...

I'm really hoping for this effort to succeed and to spread to all major browsers. I'm certain that our computing experience will increasingly be browser-based. But as a software engineer who has ...

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