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		ams6110 on March 31, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atlas: a visual IDE for desktop-like web apps HTML and "the web" were designed as a simple information-sharing platform based on hyperlinked static text documents. Building actual business applications on top of this, even if you know how the web works, has always been pretty much a kludge.

firebug on April 1, 2009 [–]

Or any kind of application thanks to the mess of standards that web developers have had to deal with. Atlas and Flex are an imperfect workaround for that problem.

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