http://www.whatisria.info Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:06:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blending the best of conventional desktop and Web apps, rich Internet applications occupy the hottest app dev real estate around A huge chasm divides the application development world, one that dozens of vendors are rushing to fill. On one side are desktop applications; on the other are Web applications. In between ... http://www.whatisria.info/definitions/martin-heller-2/ Smart Client is a term used to describe an application environment which: * delivers applications over a web http connection * does not require installation (or provide automated installation and updates) * automatically updates without user action * has the look and feel of desktop applications The term "Smart Client" is meant to refer to ... http://www.whatisria.info/definitions/wikipedia-smart-client/ Rich Internet applications (RIA’s) are web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. RIAs typically transfer the processing necessary for the user interface to the web client but keep the bulk of the data (i.e. the state of the program, the data, etc.) back on the ... http://www.whatisria.info/definitions/wikipedia-rich-internet-application/ In software engineering, a web application or webapp is an application that is accessed via web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. It is also a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language (such as HTML, JavaScript, Java, etc.) and reliant on ... http://www.whatisria.info/definitions/wikipedia-web-application/ http://www.whatisria.info/abbreviatons/rich-international-application/ http://www.whatisria.info/abbreviatons/really-it%e2%80%99s-adobe/ The more software experiences become like the natural world the more users are pleased with those experiences. One of the most powerful, understandable, and universal concepts in computing is the idea of a desktop containing files and folders. Users embraced this metaphor in their software because it modeled their natural ... http://www.whatisria.info/definitions/james-ward/ I view the concept of an RIA as having two important characteristics; connection and connection. On one hand, an RIA takes advantage of a connection - an internet connection, a connection to data. The fact that the application is on the internet is not enough. A great RIA leverages its connection ... http://www.whatisria.info/definitions/gabor-vida/ What really is RIA? This is a common question for the development industry in general. In its most basic sense, RIA is an acronym for "Rich Internet Application", but that doesn't really shed much light upon what a RIA actually is. The goal of this post is to help shed some ... http://www.whatisria.info/definitions/andrew-trice/ The following is the technical definition of a Rich Internet Application that I have included in books that I have written on Flex 2 and AIR. "RIA is an application that runs in the traditional browser but utilizes an intermediate layer that can bypass the traditional Page Refresh that has been ... http://www.whatisria.info/definitions/rich-tretola/