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The world of the Rich Internet Application (RIA) just took a couple of fascinating turns. Silverlight version 2 is now out in beta; and it looks… well it looks TOTALLY AMAZING. It can be programmed using serious, elegant, programming languages; it has great tool support; and a version of Silverlight is coming to mobile phones [...]
Update - I’m talking about JavaFX Script here… actually, JavaFX is more than that (more on the whole of JavaFX here).
Sun is announcing JavaFX today (its code name was F3). The company is positioning it as a competitor to Flash/Flex, Apollo and Silverlight. JavaFX is a scripting language for the Java [...]
It’s taken a long time, but Linux is finally to be offered on laptops and desktops targetted at consumers by Dell (see the CNET story). Dell has chosen the popular and consumer-friendly desktop Linux distro, Ubuntu. It will be interesting to see the uptake.
Please note - consumers buying Ubuntu Linux laptops and desktops won’t be [...]
There are now three significant platforms for rich internet application (RIA) development: Flash, from Adobe; Java, from Sun Microsystems; and now the brand new Silverlight (WPF/E) from Microsoft (I’m leaving AJAX out of this discussion). Currently, there’s a big debate around the question - which of these technologies will win out? In [...]
Adobe’s new cross-platform “rich desktop application” platform has just reached the stage of “public alpha” release. That means, people will be free to download it, but it’s not going to be either bug-free or feature-complete. Now, we all know that Flash is a fantastically successful browser-based technology for building Rich Internet Applications, especially [...]