Blending the best of conventional desktop and Web apps, rich Internet applications occupy the hottest app dev real estate around A huge chasm divides the application development world, one that dozens ...

A huge chasm divides the application development world, one that dozens of vendors are rushing to fill. On one side are desktop applications, on the other are Web applications. In between are rich ...

One of the question that comes up a lot in the blogs I read is what's causing the momentum swing towards RIAs. So often I focus on the examples (demos, companies, etc) and the benefits (good user ...

I've been thinking about what roles the web and the desktop play in the realm of Rich Internet Applications. I see a couple of big reasons RIAs have become much more popular in the past few months.