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• Which Rich Internet Application Technology will dominate?

  Phil Leggetter 1:34 am on November 7, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Ajax (2), flash (2), Flex, JavaScript (11), PHP (2), real-time data (9), real-time web (29), RIA, silverlight (10)

  I’ve been a member of the RIA Developers Group on LinkedIn for a short while now and the other day Patrick Bay posted a link to an interesting article on Computer Weekly about the prominence of RIAs. A few comments were posted and then Patrick questioned which RIAs would “bubble to the top”.

  I think the UI revolution’s already here; now we see which ones bubble to the top!

  This got me thinking about the criteria that may determine which RIA technology would be most successful.

  I think there are a number of things that will determine which one will ultimately win, or at least become the dominant choice. At the moment I can think of three categories; Technology buy-in, Development environment and Data access capabilities and choice.
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• Real-Time Rich Internet Applications (RTRIA)

  Phil Leggetter 10:15 am on October 29, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: flash (2), pubsubhubbub (3), real-time (5), real-time data (9), real-time web (29), RIA, rssCloud, RTRIA (4), silverlight (10)

  Real-Time Rich Internet Applications (RTRIAs) are RIAs that consume and display real-time data. They have all the characteristics of an RIA with the added feature that data is being pushed to them in real-time as soon as it becomes available. This is in contrast to the current polling solution employed by most RIAs or other web applications that display updating data.

  I mentioned RTRIAs for the first time back in April 2009 in a post called “What is the real-time web” on the Caplin Systems Platformability blog, and since then there has been a real-time web explosion. The “real-time web” is now the buzz phrase around the Internet that everybody is jumping on. Back in April I set up a Google Alert for the term “real-time web”. Back then I got maybe one Google Alert a day for this term, probably less. Now, I get at least two dense emails a day from Google with people using the term for all sorts of things; real-time web stats, real-time analytics, real-time search, rssCloud, pubsubhubbub, the list goes on. This is not the real-time web! Whilst some of the things on this list will help  the web become truly real-time (rssCloud and pubsubhubbub may even form the back bone), none of these things give the user a truly real-time web experience.

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