[Sigia-l] RIA: the wrong tree?

[Lee Hsieh]

I'm not sure most users understand the destinctions being mentioned.  What i do think users appreciate though, including myself, are apps that make the messiness of technology a little easier.  Granted there will always be usability issues to tackle, but now with the increasing availabilty of free, flexible and globally accessible web apps, users are less encumbered by technology contraints(eg, platform, memory, install, etc).

In terms of client-side sw, there will always be a place for them-especially for mission critical environments. But for consumers, there is really no reason to maintain the wasteful, distribution model of shrink-wrapped sw.

Personally,until i can plug my brain directly into the network, my mantra is the less physical stuff to deal with the better ;-)

Lee


-----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Ziya Oz
> Sent: 24 May 2007 06:25
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: [Sigia-l] RIA: the wrong tree?
> 
> "On more than a few occasions<most recently in the context of 
> Avalon [Windows Presentation Foundation]<I?ve observed here 
> that both IT admins and end-users prefer browser-based apps 
> to traditional compiled clients, for everything except 
> content creation. Every time, I get emails and incoming 
> pointers from people saying 'You just don?t get it, the Web 
> interfaces are so tired, we really need a richer UI 
> paradigm.' The interesting thing is that these reactions are 
> always<every time, without exception<from developers. Not 
> once has an end-user type person written in saying they 
> wished they could have a richer interface like the kind they 
> used to have in compiled desktop apps."
> 
> So says Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML, currently at Sun:
> 
> <http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/11/03/>
> 
> Is he right?