[Sigia-l] The IA in RIAs

[Bill Pawlak]

> Bill asked if it has to be a connected client and I would say, Yes it does.

I asked if the definition of an RIA has to include a
"partially-connected" client... one that allows users to download a
lot of data to the client side and manipulate it without requiring a
trip back to the server.  Or at least that's what I *meant* to ask! 
:)

> Anyway, tha'ts the way I believe that Macromedia and I know the way
> that I am using RIA. There needs to be some definition that separates
> it from C/S solutions b/c I do believe we are not moving ALL the way
> back to C/S.

Agree completely. 

BTW, I was looking through the Sigia-L archives and found that this
discussion of "what is an RIA" has happened before:
http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/0405/0116.html.  In that, there
was talk about XUL and whether or not it consitutes an RIA platform. 
After playing with the Mozilla Amazon Browser
(http://www.faser.net/mab/), I'd say a "mostly yes," but not from a
communications protocol standpoint.  Again, it depends on if the
communications protocol is part of the definition.

bill