Internet started as plain hyper link markup language with no graphics way back in eighties. Then in nineties the pages started getting bit of dynamism and graphics. By the year 2002, Macromedia™ (now Adobe™) coined the term Rich Internet Application (RIA). This gives web applications a buch of properties like Quality, Flexible, Fast and Real time rendering of information like a desktop application. This makes the web rich, dynamic and interactive.
In the initial stages many web designers and developers uses Adobe Flash™ or Adobe Flex™ and Ajax™ components to build such applications. Adobe™ have the advantage in RIA by possessing FlashPlayer™ as an authoring environment and Adobe Flex™ as a cross-platform development framework.
Ingredients
An integrated development environment (IDE) or authoring tool such as Flex Builder™, Flash™, Dreamweaver™, Aptana™, Eclipse™ or a simple text editor.
- A software development kit (SDK) such as Flex SDK or Adobe AIR™ SDK
- Images or other rich assets such as Flash content
- A web host or server space
Links:
http://fotoflexer.com/demos.php
http://www.bigspaceship.com/archive/nikeair/
http://desktop.ebay.com/
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