Thanx that`s really helpful!
Benjamin Dobler RIA Development web: http://www.richapps.de mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von John Dowdell > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2005 22:44 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [flexcoders] RIAs > > 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 > > > > 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/
