… a question asked and answered in detail by senior editor A. Russell Jones in article on DevX:

"The bottom line is: DHTML is dead for serious application development; browsers, as application delivery platforms, are past their peak; and the future of distributed, interactive applicationsat least on Windowsbelongs to .NET. If you're developing these types of applications and you're not learning .NET, you may want to rethink your career plans."

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