The web apps vs. desktop apps debate-line is one that spells a generation change.

Next generation internet trends points to social collaboration and realtime access to information, which invariably means that web applications are the future rave.

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And to drive home the above points, Google Native Client, an open-source technology for running native code in web applications, undertaken by Google has finally landed on Chrome 10, according to an official post on the Chromium blog.

Native Client (NaCl) is a step to enabling the convenience experienced in running programs natively on a PC, as against running same over the web. As web applications today greatly depends on JavaScript, which invariably limits the program's performance.

However, the extend to which this new technology can be applied outside the Chrome environment remains to be seen.