[Sigia-l] The IA in RIAs

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Dave:

> 1. I was talking mostly about server CPU problems...basically the CPU
bandwidth problem is still there for the vast majority of the world.

CPU won't be the problem. Clustering and variations of grid computing will
solve that problem. Database access is and will be the bottleneck.

> 2. What HTML can do is amazing...

So are you going to stop saying HTML is/should be dead, as I keep telling
you? :-)
 
> ... there is a virtual database repository. I have no seen this in an
> HTML-based application...

No, no, no. You read data from cached memory, remote disk (server) or local
disk (your hard disk). Flash doesn't reinvent current laws of computing yet.
:-) Yes, parsed data from XML is/can be cached in Flash, but the same can be
done in HTML/JavaScript just as easily. Create an array, stuff it in there
and access it without a trip to the server.
 
> Things I'd love to see in x-browser HTML ... drag and drop columns,
> easy column text truncation where I don't have to write the rules for
> it each time.

Lots of widgets could have been part of every web browser half a decade ago,
only if that company you love so much hadn't been so threatened by the
notion of a x-platform client app to emasculate it thoroughly and
deliberately, to the point of disbanding its entire IE development team
years ago.

Again look at the efforts underway by Apple, Opera, Macromedia, Sun,
Mozilla...(anybody but Microsoft) to, in fact, give you all that and more:

Techworld.com - Browser rival to ActiveX in the offing
<http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=1856>

Ziya
Nullius in Verba