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* Stimulate doing behaviour when it should be possible to create new client application or tweak existing on a client side;
* Stimulate doing behaviour when it should be possible to create new client application or tweak existing on a client side;
* It is all time possible to create Web application on a server side.
* It is all time possible to create Web application on a server side.
=== Default client ===
The default client is implemented using Web technologies to:
* Using Web technologies might make client developing easier;
* Make it possible to reuse Sugar Network in any Web browser in any Desktop Environment, i.e., not only from Sugar Shell;
* It might be easier to find potential Sugar contributors within Web developers rather than developers who know GTK.
It might sound a bit confusing to have local Web application, but this decision is based on:
* Local Web applications serve only one user and are much simpler than singular applications that are intended to serve multiple users simultaneously;
* It might be useful to design simple and clean code using existing Web technics like MVC;
* Thus, it will be easier for doers to learn, change, reimplement the new clients.


=== Personal server ===
=== Personal server ===