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By: An Introduction to Rich Internet Applications - Mrinal Wadhwa on Rich Internet Applications

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:48:25 +0000

[...] Wadhwa, is a Rich Internet Applications Consultant from Bangalore, India. He uses this blog to study the evolution of a richer Internet. [...]

By: abhilash

abhilash — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:41:34 +0000

according to me, RIA is full of finite states and transitions, so making things faster and easier, handles dynamic data as smooth as silk, next web revolution is just RIA, can’t be anything rather…………

By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:54:41 +0000

Hi George,

Yes I am opinionated (strongly, at times) … but I don’t wish to come across as rigid, so maybe I need to work on that, thanks for pointing it out.

I do feel that debates (even the intense strongly opinionated ones) are a good thing .. because amidst all the chaos they provide an opportunity for clarity and help us understand things better.

Thank you for the feedback

Mrinal

By: George Victor

George Victor — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:36:38 +0000

Hi Mrinal,

It seems like you are rigid in your views and wrong at times. So I don’t want to waste my time convincing you.

I expect a bit more of information from a experienced blogger like you, not just debates with stubborn views.

George Victor
Motorola Inc.

By: The state of Enterprise UIs : “It’s a design thinking problem” - Mrinal Wadhwa

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:46:43 +0000

[...] Wadhwa, is a Rich Internet Applications Consultant from Bangalore, India. He uses this blog to study the evolution of a richer Internet. [...]

By: Raghuram Reddy

Raghuram Reddy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:32:44 +0000

RIA is just a concept of developing application by providing user friendly controls, same look n feel in browser,mobile,,what ever it is and advanced level of data processing.
some examples for the above are:
User friendly controls,widgets : auto suggest box, drag n drop boxes,viewlets,..
Rich UI: with flash,flex, javafx u wil never face issues and experience richness. apps. using flex looks really rich.
Advance level of data processing: if data base value got updated. trigger will fire to update the UI.
its with out ajax refresh in frequent duration. Its with flex.

Initially auto suggest box was rich. Now its common.
so RIA defn. is not static to publish and use it years together.

so keep rocking with Richest Rich Internet Apps.

Thanks,
Raghuram Reddy Gottimukkula
Bangalore

By: Fagun

Fagun — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:59:59 +0000

RT @mrinal: just heard my name on the @summerofflash podcast … here’s the post they wr talking abt > Whats an RIA? http://bit.ly/18oVci

By: LINTO

LINTO — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:23:28 +0000

* We need to INSTALL browser to access web ….. So as Mrinal says, applications running on desktop ( after installation ) is also an RIA. Using Adobe AIR , we can create a mini browser itself and install it on desktop and browse “browser RIAs”

By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:41:01 +0000

Garth,

I would agree, as long as your mobile phone app deals with data on the network and offers a more engaging and richer experience compared to an average mobile app .. in my head its an RIA.
Its all relative though .. its an RIA today, the same app may not be an RIA an year from now

Mrinal

By: Thorsten Franz

Thorsten Franz — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:44:27 +0000

RT @mrinal this is how I define RIA http://bit.ly/18oVci << clear and good and still valid 10 months later

By: Garth Braithwaite

Garth Braithwaite — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:55:16 +0000

It is a tough things to nail down, but I’m pretty loose in my interpretation of RIA. I agree it is anything that connects to an online datasource or offloads the workload to the interwebs. I personally put many mobile phone apps in the RIA category. I can see how someone would disagree.

By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:20:01 +0000

Thanks Dean, I’m glad you agree

By: Dean Gifford

Dean Gifford — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:23:57 +0000

Hi Mrinal Wadhwa,

I totally agree with your view of RIA’s not needing to be restricted to the browser. I have recently wrote a paper investigating the use or RDIA technologies (Rich Desktop Internet Application Technologies … main focus on WPF and adobe AIR)

Even though I used the term RDIA – i still feel your description of a RIA is also correct.
Kind Regards,
Dean Gifford.

By: R Pooran Prasad

R Pooran Prasad — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:54:20 +0000

RT @mrinal: What is an RIA? http://tr.im/lwjV

By: RKM

RKM — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:18:47 +0000

Hi,
What we understand about RIA is, an application which combines the best features of both Web as well as Desktop. RIA application can be a desktop application talking to web(Google Desktop) or a web application talking to desktop(Sliverlight Application).