The trouble with RIA is that there is no universal defacto browser technology. There are lots of interesting solutions for rich functionality. My gut feeling it is gooing to take a twentieth-first century equivalent of Netscape and Microsoft to really push forward a next generation [XML/XSLT/ T(x)] browser
Where T(x) stands for some new technology. Hint substitute T(x) for SVG, XUL, Flex, or whatever you think it is going happen.
Hey Peter, I saw your post on TSS or RiA.
Rich Internent Application, key word is *APPLICATION*. There is no browser, that would make 2 sets of windowing API. Like iTunes is an aplication. Or Limewire is an application. It makes it simpler and more powerfull w/o browser, just use browser for launch. I think Java WebStart is big, no such thing in .NET . (Java of course for cross platform, how do I do a network launch w/ .NET on Mac?). Look who owns the browser standard. (IE of course, with all the plug in, so .... lets just bypass it, nothing worse than coding JSP for IE)
As far as development enviroment, if you compare Sun's JCP Java ... we lose, we lose big:
http://theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=28695
(See the GridBag demo)
But if you include O/S, like JGoodies (iBatis, etc.) ... we win. I do think there will be O/S for .NET (like Apache is porting, Ant is porting, iBatis is porting.... so it will be closer. More of a tanget: I think Unix is MUCH more stable than viruses on Windoze. Just check out Redhat Fedora. So ... for heavy lifting, Linux. For departmental, WinAntiVirusCitySlowPoke)
Anyway, I think future is iTunes-like-applications concept (with "distributed web services" arcitecture), I will have a sample next month, posted on my site only.
.V boardVU.com
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