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When I read the bellow two articles about Opera and HTML 5 it really solidifies to me the fact that programming is getting easier. The ability for people to do more with less, on the Web, is only going to expand exponentially.

That Reinvention Of The Web Thing Opera Was Talking About? It’s Called Opera Unite

We told you last week that browser maker Opera was generating quite some buzz by being secretive about their plans to ‘reinvent the web’. Well, the company this morning unveiled what it was referring to: technology that essentially turns every computer running the Opera browser into a full-fledged Web server. Behold Opera Unite.

HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight? by InfoWorld: Yahoo! Tech

HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.

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