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by salehhamadeh 4457 days ago
That's a good point. In my opinion, HTTP's success is due to its platform-independent nature and its simple yet effective text-based communication protocol. Standardized solutions are the way to go.

Flash died because it was private and for Adobe. Java will not remain a strong web language as long as it is for Oracle.

I predict a great future for HTML5 WebSockets, as well as other open-source API's and protocols.