Let the Rich Internet App Battle Begin

It was a big week for Rich Internet Applications. Adobe's Creative Suite 5 and Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010, as well as its Silverlight 4, all lend momentum to the drive to move RIAs off the browser. The platforms have sharpened new methodologies for designing simpler client-side Web apps that maintain data on stronger server-side apps.
In recent years, most Web applications in widespread use have been developed with Web browsers as their platform. Here, one imagines Java advocates are already composing their complaint letters. But with Web resources bound to URLs, for most developers, it's made sense to utilize the functionality most commonly associated with URL-bound resources: HTML, JavaScript, and now its rapidly maturing derivative, Ajax.

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