Benjamin Dobler wrote: > Does anyone remember when the word RIA (Rich Internet Application) first > appeared. Who invented the term? I think it was someone at MM but i > can`t remember.
As Jesse noted, the first use of that acronym appeared to be in this 500K PDF from Macromedia in March 2002: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flash/whitepapers/richclient.pdf A year or two back I tried to confirm this through the recall.archive.org engine (since deceased), which did textual analysis of the archive.org content, and it did confirm that this Macromedia document was the first usage of that "RIA" term. I can't prove that no one ever used that phrase before, but I've never seen any evidence to counter its original definition being by Macromedia staff. I got tired of regularly finding an dopening that PDF then clicking through pages, so I copied the guts of it over here: http://www.markme.com/jd/archives/007312.cfm Paraphrasing and summarizing that "crucial aspects of rich client technologies" section, these were defined as: (a) use of a high-performance runtime for code, content and communications; (b) integration of media types (video in the same window, eg); (c) a common object model for these multimedia services; (d) ability to use and add components, for development efficiency; (e) XML data communications with servers; (f) online/offline transparency (we're all still working on that one!); (g) friendly to various browsers, operating systems, devices... there's explicit mention of "beyond the desktop" non-PC work here. The term "RIA" has been bandied about in much of the AJaX hullaballoo, but I'm not sure any current JavaScript examples actually meet the above criteria -- modern JavaScript techniques have recently added ongoing XML transfers with the server, but they don't seem in the same ballpark on the "rich" aspect of that popular "RIA" moniker. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
