Applications potentially targeting every Internet user. Thus, this type of application has to take care that each potential user can access and use the application, regardless of which browser is installed on his system. If browser plug-ins are needed, only plug-ins with a very high market penetration are sufficient.
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An Overview of and Criteria for the Differentiation and Evaluation of RIA Architectures
Marcel Linnenfelser (Synflag Web Engineering, Germany), Sebastian Weber (Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Germany), and Jörg Rech (Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Germany)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-384-5.ch008
Abstract
An important aspect of Web 2.0, mentioned by Tim O’Reilly, is the rich user experience. Web 2.0 applications offer the user a desktop-like interface to bring back efficiency and productivity. The click-wait-andrefresh- cycle of normal Web applications leads to a less responsive, and thus less efficient, user interface. To serve the needs of these so-called rich Internet applications (RIA), many different approaches have emerged, based either on Web standards or on proprietary approaches. This chapter aims at defining a qualified criterion system for comparing RIA platforms. Thereafter, those RIA platforms are selected and analyzed in terms of the criterion system that is most likely to become widely accepted.