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March 06, 2007
Happy b-day, RIA
Happy b-day, RIA: A few days late, but I'm pretty sure this press release announcing Macromedia Flash MX, on March 4, 2002, arrived the same day that the original RIA whitepaper went live (500K PDF, summary here). Since then the strange concept has really been accepted... everybody loves RIAs. The first major objection I remember was from Simon St. Laurent a week later... comments here are lengthy and made me grin while re-reading, five years on. When the WWW model of addresses and browsers first arose, multimedia engines pursued dual paths of in-browser plugins and network-aware out-of-browser applications -- Macromedia Director could be deployed as in-browser Shockwave or standalone EXEs with NetLingo. The "Rich Internet Application" model pulled together by a group of smart people at Macromedia drew a line in the sand for what types of experiences to expect in the future, for richer ways that clients and servers could work together. We're still working on occasional connectivity and device presence, but it's good to look at how many of the other major goals are realities today, five years on.
Posted by JohnDowdell at March 6, 2007 05:38 PM
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