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October 11, 2005
[RIAs] Shifting From Flash RIAs to AJAX, Flash and Flex RIAs
Despite my many [OT] post my (other) main focus of this blog has been related to Flash Rich Internet Applications development. While Flash RIAs will remain a big part of this site I feel that it is also import to consider AJAX as an RIA deployment platform as well.
While I personally disagree with the name “AJAX” (considering most of the notable AJAX applications don’t actually use XML) “language pragmatists will say that the right words are the ones people actually use and this word is catching on” (to quote Tim O’Rielly of O'Rielly Media). Granted, Mr. O’Rielly was referring to the Web 2.0 meme, however, his point still applies; but I digress.
With the recent popularity of AJAX many companies are viewing AJAX as a viable web application solution. Rather, then viewing this as a competing technology I see it as yet another platform Flash can be deployed to. However, as an RIA developer my goal shouldn't be to deploy the best Flash or AJAX RIA user experience possible; it should be to deploy the best RIA user experience period. Having a biased preference to just 1 technology (guilty) isn’t fair to your end users and puts you into a proverbial box. Being able to leverage the strengths and understanding the weaknesses of both technologies will in the end make your applications better and make you a better developer.
/soapbox
With that (and finally to the point of my post) I’m slightly shifting my blogs focus from Flash related news rants and ideas to AJAX, Flash and Flex RIA Development (news and rants still apply).
-erik
Posted by erikbianchi at October 11, 2005 08:02 AM