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RIA definition: [500K PDF link] The term "RIA" was used frequently this past month, but it was only while reading the piping-hot comments at a Scoble article about "Microsoft Outlook Web Access being one of the first and best AJaX apps", that I remembered there actually is a functional definition of "Rich Internet Application". It's contained within that RIA whitepaper Jeremy Allaire wrote for the Macromedia site in March 2002, which was the first use of that phrase on the web (according to searches later done at recall.archive.org, which has since disappeared). I've copied the first section which describes some of the requirements for "rich internet applications", so that it's easier to get at in the future... just click that "More..." button to read....
[apologies for the formatting -- Acrobat's "Copy Text" introduces linebreaks, and I got tired cleaning them all]
[start quote]
In the mid-1990s, explosive growth in the Internet and the World Wide Web drove widespread adoption of a new model for content and applications using personal computers connected to the Internet. Coined ëthin-clientí computing, this new model promised to lower the cost of developing and delivering applications to end-user desktops, customers and business partners, and to increase the range of application types that could be delivered. This model centered on a very thin client based on HTML, and powerful application servers
that dynamically composed and delivered ëpagesí to web browsers.
So far this model has proven successful. However, it has also suffered from
significant drawbacks and limitations, especially around the richness of the application interfaces, media and content, and the overall sophistication of the
solutions that could be built and delivered. Indeed, for many traditional
application developers, while the web has offered significant conveniences in
terms of ease of deployment, the capabilities of the programming and user
interaction models have forced users to suffer. In many respects, much of the
web application development and deployment technology of the late 1990s has
had to adapt to the challenges imposed by the architecture inherent in the web.
The Internet of 2002 will be different. End-users and businesses are demanding
more from their investments in Internet technology. The ability to deliver true
value to users is forcing many companies to look towards richer models for
Internet applications; models that combine the media-rich power of the
traditional desktop with the deployment and content-rich nature of web
applications. Companies are also anticipating a growth in the use of web
services, or reusable software components that are used as services over the
network, and looking towards a world where applications will need to share
functionality and data across many types of client devices. These trends are
driving the industry towards next-generation rich clients.
This is the backdrop upon which Macromedia built Macromedia Flash MX and
Macromedia Flash Player 6.
Before detailing the technical aspects of the Macromedia Flash MX client
environment, it is important to note what we consider to be the crucial aspects
of rich client technologies. Rich client technologies should:
Macromedia Flash MX attempts to address and enable all of these opportunities.
[end quote]
Posted by John Dowdell at March 22, 2005 5:30 PM
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