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The latest means to create desktop-style Web applications using JavaScript was announced last week, and has created quite a flurry of excitement. Cappuccino, an open-source application framework, was released by the programmers at 280 North, a Web startup that has been using Cappuccino in its own development. Cappuccino, as the FAQ states, is released under the Lesser GNU Public License. This license ensures that while the Cappuccino framework itself will remain open source, applications written using it may be released under any license, without restrictions.

In one of the more interesting reviews of Google's open source Chrome browser, released yesterday, AP technology writer Peter Svensson suggests that Google missed the boat by focusing on JavaScript performance in the browser, and submits that the real culprit behind much pokey web performance and many browser crashes is Adobe's Flash. Notably, Svensson's diatribe against Flash coincided with some interesting comments sent to us at OStatic from AdventNet/Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu. Vembu sees Chrome's focus on JavaScript as right on, to the point where it may begin to stifle Flash. Here's the gist of all this.