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This is just an introduction about Rich Internet Application or RIA.
RIA is a new internet terminology from Macromedia which is just about
web applications. Well of course, if you run a project for a
prestigeous company, you wouldn’t just go with the flow and refer to
your idea as a “web application"? They got to be creative to think of
term that will be synonymous to their product. Well macromedia actually
develop products for creative developers.
As mentioned, RIA is just simply a web application. The main
difference is that web application’s main components are HTML and
whatever underlying technology that is being used to process a GET or POST request. Technologies like JSP/Servlet, PHP, and ASP. In case of RIA, it is Macromedia Flash.
Couple
of years back, developers we’re amazed about what Flash can do on a
website. Website became lively with all the rich media content such as
sound, vector graphics, and video. Some developers turned to using
flash in creating website’s navigation. But, these reasons were not
enough for web application to incorporate this technology until the
release of the MX version.
Flash MX introduced a lot of
addition that makes it really useful for web developers. Flash can now
also communicate with the underlying technologies that process the GET
and POST request. Using Flash MX, it will make a web application more
user friendly. Creating a better user experience.
Imagine a
web application page that will post a request to the server. With HTML,
submitting means reloading the whole page on the process of submission.
With Flash RIA as a component of the HTML page, submission only takes
the process of retrieving the data in the RIA area. This means faster
response as there is no need to reload the whole page.
Another
advantage of an RIA implementation is effective forms layout. If the
application requires a lot of forms to fill up, this would usually take
more than one page using HTML. Using Flash MX, forms can be effectively
layout in one page. Users don’t need to go back and forth on pages if
they need to re-enter information. This means better user experience.
Moving
to RIA would require a lot of learning curve. Companies will not spend
money just to replace their functioning web applications. But with RIA,
a web application offers a much greater user experience.
Further Reading:
Macromedia
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