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Back in May 2007, I predicted that 2008 would see a renaissance in the use of Java Applets in web browsers. In the coming months, we’ll find out if I was right: the first beta version of the new “consumerized” version of Java (the so-called Consumer JRE aka Java SE 6 update N aka Java [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft has just released a product called Popfly; right now, it’s an invitation-only alpha release (see the web-site). What is Popfly? It’s an easy-to-use software tool that lets pretty much anyone create simple Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and simple video games quickly and easily. And, by “anyone”, I mean that even people that [...]
Microsoft has just announced the details of its plans for building the .NET runtime and .NET class libraries into its new Silverlight, cross-platform, cross-browser Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform. It’s an important announcement. The devil is in the detail with all this stuff, and from what Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie has said, I [...]