July 15, 2009
Looking at the state of rich Internet applications in 2009 we can clearly see that proprietary plug-ins are getting more acceptance in the market. While people seemed to keep bashing Macromedia/Adobe for their proprietary Flash plug-in back in the early RIA days (2001-2006, and I had my share in the bashing), the situation has much [...]
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February 26, 2009
Based on the what I observed in the rich Internet application (RIA) business in the last 5 years, Adobe Flash is a clear winner among the multiple available browser-based runtime environments. Adobe has effectively executed a move from a once proprietary ActionScript language to an open standards based ActionScript3 language (ActionScript3 and the ECMA4 draft), [...]
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