Another reason to like the Mac community is this comparison of Safari and Firefox 3 rendering styles. The fact that there are people that care this much about title bar gradients shows why Mac community’s emphasis on look and feel contribute to the overall user experience.

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I’m a relative newcomer to the .NET world (and a reluctant one at that). My initial thoughts are that the framework tries to do too much by trying to merge the lines between desktop and web application development. While there are certainly many ways that the web has benefited from traditional applications (with AJAX and other buzzwords), there are arenas where the two are still distinct.

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