[Sigia-l] The IA in RIAs

[Dave]

> I'd also like to remind people once again that the speed with which Google
> handles data refreshes in GMail and Google Suggest should put to rest the
> notion that HTML or remote data is always slow. Those are way faster than
> most Flash/RIAs out there.
> 
> Designers solve problems. Other than being knowledgeable about design
> constraints thus introduced, we shouldn't really care where an app's data
> resides.

thanx for the corrections.

2 quick things ...
1. I was talking mostly about server CPU problems and if you aren't
Google w/ billions of dollars to throw at the problem, it is still an
issue, especially if you are paying people like Oracle which charge a
ton/CPU licensing fees. ;) ... basically the CPU bandwidth problem is
still there for the vast majority of the world.

2. What HTML can do is amazing when you dig down deep into it. Look at
the Google Suggest thingy
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en, which I find to be
tremendously responsive and useful.

I have not however, seen any application that does the type of data
manipulation I was thinking of. While Flash has to hold data in memory
as you suggest and not save it to the HD or a more stable file, I do
rmeember from my Flash class that once an XML file is imported and the
schema understood, there is a virtual database repository. I have no
seen this in an HTML-based application where I can move from
view-to-view of the same data; sort, filter, re format without going
back to the server and causing a "get/load" feeling in some way b/c
the GUI components are not yet resident on the client.

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.

These two things should just be, well standard widget definitions
instead of the level of complexity I feel most developers perceive
this to be (remember, x-browser; and I'd accept Mozilla, MSIE, Opera,
Safari w/ Windows and MacOS as is appropriate.

Hit me Ziya!

-- dave

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