I am not one of those that draw a red line between what some have called RDA (Rich Desktop Application for running outside the browser) and RIA (Rich Internet Application that run in a browser).
markets, technologies, content and capabilities of these two families are too close to them as truly separate ... I will continue here to discuss platforms RIA for techno as different as WPF, AIR, Ajax, Flash, Silverlight, XUL, Java or the platform of widgets: I exclude by or Flex OpenLazlo cons of this terminology to the extent that they are only technologies server (for RIA platform, of course) and not the runtimes.
This proximity between technologies at first glance seems rather different from elsewhere each day a little more clear. The latest example is with some testing on Google Gears one hand and AIR on the other.
These two tech start from the same principle: the inertia of habits web development is such competition between tech news so fierce that it is better to impose complete a soft revolution. And what is the kind of revolutionary discourse?
- Continue to use your tech web development: Ajax, Flash ... what are good techno, and you still have a lot of customers to satisfy with.
- Continue to develop sites / applications that can be visited with a simple browser is a major web should not lose.
- Go farther on some features with customers / users want with our technologies: offline mode, access to resources systems.
- Rest assured, our technologies are converging: Javascript, XML, SQLite ...
And you know what? It's true! He does not just commercial speech as we have heard a lot in recent years. The few tests we have made my colleagues and I showed that for the same application implementations AIR and Gears are very close ... and that's very good news, you can not find?
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