As a purely unscientific asides loading this page, using a Javascript
RIA based technology, adds 30MB to my Safari footprint
http://www.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/desktop/desktop.html
And loading this flex based demo site adds a 110MB
http://flex.org/showcase/
It's interesting, a few years ago, both Flex and JS based RIA
approaches would have been totally unsuccessful on the basis of
download size alone with the minimum Flex app is about 500Kb (2x the
size of the flash runtime if I recall correctly!) and EXT JS weights
around the same size in Javascript source code - all before you write
a line of code or add an image yourself.
Some 13 years after applets turn up, with GB of ram and Ghz of
processing power, we're still saying Java is too big, too slow for the
desktop - My laptop has more processing power and available RAM than
half the LPAR images we deploy our web apps to on production, and
certainly more than the servers of 5 or 10 years ago.
For me, in my reading of a lot of the Update 10 stuff, Sun is moving
to rectify or improve a great many things. The next 12 months will
see if they have succeeded.
I'm hoping for the best.
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