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January 23, 2008
RIA, 2008
RIA, 2008: Ryan Stewart pulls together a bunch of predictions for "rich internet applications" over the next year. I see different trends, mostly piggybacking off of things established in 2007: (1) The RIA concept, which once prompted fierce debate, has now been endorsed by Ajax, Microsoft, Mozilla, and pretty much everyone in the world now... resistance is gone. (2) High-speed, OS-neutral processing is available today on the world's computers, via the 95% audience support of Adobe Flash Player 9. (3) The fastest way to create such apps, the Adobe Flex workflow, is on the verge of delivery in the key 3.0 version, and many high-profile applications have been developed during beta. (4) And then there's AIR, which brings deeper capability than what a browser can offer, using the same development technologies you'd use for in-browser work. Audience capability... client demand... cheaper production... additional delivery channels... all of these were firmly established in 2007, and will be used to significant effect in 2008. We'll see things flower, that's my prediction.
Posted by JohnDowdell at January 23, 2008 7:42 PM