The Flash platform (the basis for Flex) is almost as ubiquitous as the browser itself, having been installed into browsers all over the world for nigh-on a decade now.

Flash平台(Flex的基础)几乎像浏览器一样普及，已经安装到全世界的浏览器中接近十年时间。

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Another tenet of Web 2.0 is the fact that while applications are presumed to use the Web as a platform, they aren't restricted to a browser on the desktop machine, or even to a browser at all.

Web 2.0的另一个原则是虽然应用程序可能使用Web作为平台，但这些应用程序并不受限于台式机上的浏览器，甚至根本不受限于任何浏览器。

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Firefox 3 makes Web development even more of a pleasure, and with the addition of offline support, opens up the browser as a more viable general-purpose application platform.

Firefox 3令web开发更加轻松，通过添加脱机支持，使浏览器成为更加实用的通用应用程序平台。

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Netscape is enhancing its browser to serve as a platform to run applications.

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From that perspective, it helps to think of Chrome (the browser) as the platform and the OS as a way of delivering the purest expression of what that platform can do.

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In fact, a recent Nielsen report found that over 150 million users access Facebook from a mobile platform about as many as those who do so from a desktop browser.

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