Re: Pros Cons of RIAs

2003-03-07 Thread Bryan Stevenson
oh boy...here we go...see below Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com

RE: Pros Cons of RIAs

2003-03-07 Thread Benoit Hediard
If you need some Pros and concrete RIAs examples, this article is very good : http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/logged_in/thale_rias.html Have a look at all the examples and try to build them with plain HTML... for most of them, it is nearly impossible. Benoit Hediard www.benorama.com

Re: Pros Cons of RIAs

2003-03-07 Thread Mike Chambers
You have to consider the cost and development time it will take for you to develop it, as well as the benefit it will add for your customer. For example, Broadmoor.com got a significant return on investment by creating a RIA to allow users to book rooms. They saw a substantial (I'll see if I can

Re: Pros Cons of RIAs

2003-03-07 Thread Christian Cantrell
On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 02:14 PM, Adrocknaphobia Jones wrote: - More expensive to develop - Requires more developers I built my first RIAs when CFMX was in beta. I put together about five relatively simple RIAs for a series of Flash and ColdFusion integration tutorials. I will admit

Re: Pros Cons of RIAs

2003-03-07 Thread jon hall
Friday, March 7, 2003, 2:35:11 PM, you wrote: BS -excellent wow value when showing clients (that can make/break a sale) I may disagree with the some of your points, but this is the one that matters, and it is totally true from what I've seen. I rarely see a client get excited about usability,

RE: Pros Cons of RIAs

2003-03-07 Thread Stacy Young
All of our internal projects are now RIA's...I'm on the third one...here is my opinion inline below... So far I my list of cons is: - More expensive to develop Initially, absolutely. Unless you have folks with the skillset in-house. However, with each passing project, I believe it to be

RE: Pros Cons of RIAs

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
So, in all the responses I've gotten, I've seen RIAs are not for you then RIAs really don't make for good e-commerce. So my question is: When is an RIA justified? When is there a benefit to create an RIA over an HTML application? I don't know if there's a bright line that'll be easy to

Re: Pros Cons of RIAs

2003-03-07 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Bryan Stevenson wrote: From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Requires a plug-in Ya there sure are tonnes of folks without it ;-) Well, it would be about 4 times as expensive for me to buy a PDA and phone that support Flash as a PDA and phone that support HTML. The bottom line is