Version detection with Silverlight
How can I efficiently and effectively detect the version and, for that matter, any available information about the instance of Silverlight currently running on the browser? ...
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Alternative "architectural" approaches to javaScript client code?
How is your javaScript code organized? Does it follow patterns like MVC, or something else? I've been working on a side project for some time now, and the further I get, the more my webpage has turned into a full-featured application. Right now, I'm sticking with jQuery, however, the logic on the page is growing to a point where some o...
What are the (technical) pros and cons of Flash vs AJAX/JS?
We provide a web application with a frontend completely developed in Adobe Flash. When we chose Flash 6 years ago, we did so for its large number of features for user interaction, like dragging stuff, opening and closing menus, tree navigation elements, popup dialogs etc. Today it's obvious that AJAX/JS offers roughly the same possibili...
Printing in Adobe AIR - Standalone PDF Generation
Is it possible to generate PDF Documents in an Adobe AIR application without resorting to a round trip web service for generating the PDF? I've looked at the initial Flex Reports on GoogleCode but it requires a round trip for generating the actual PDF. Given that AIR is supposed to be the Desktop end for RIAs is there a way to accomplis...
How to make Flex RIA contents accessible to search engines like Google?
How would you make the contents of Flex RIA applications accessible to Google, so that Google can index the content and shows links to the right items in your Flex RIA. Consider a online shop, created in Flex, where the offered items shall be indexed by Google. Then a link on Google should open the corresponding product in the RIA. ...
What is the single most useful general purpose javascript library for rich internet apps?
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What is the best way to handle URL mappings between an RIA version and plain old HTML version of a site?
So if you have a RIA version (Silverlight or Flash) and a standard HTML version (or AJAX even), should you have the same URL for both, or is it ok to have a different one for the RIA app and just redirect accordingly? So, for instance, if you have a site (http://example.com), is it ok to have the about page URL for the RIA app be http:/...
Best server-side framework for heavy RIA based application?
What do the collective beleive to be the best platform to use as a backend to AJAX / Flex / Silverlight applications and why? We are undergoing a technology review and I would like to know some other opinions. Is It Java, Grails, Python, Rails, ColdFusion, something else? ...
How to get a Flex project to load a plugin at runtime?
I'm looking to have a couple of plugins in a Flex project I'm working on. I know I can load a SWF using the SWFLoader, but I thought in Flex3 you can now have Runtime Shared Libraries or something. Does anyone have any good documentation on loading a plugin at runtime? Ideally I'd like to be able to load a plugin from a URL, then execute...
What are some of the major shifts in thinking required to become a good Rich Internet Application (RIA) developer?
I've been experimenting with Adobe Flex recently. Being a long-time server-side web app developer, I'm faced with difficulties that I last experienced when I dabbled in Java Swing development a long time ago. It mainly revolves around the flow of control between my code and the framework's code. Most things are asynchronous as to not fre...
Are server-assisted MVC frameworks peaking?
I've been developing web apps for over a decade now, all the way from CGI to ASP.Net and Struts+Spring+Hibernate. The prevalent architectural style seems to be server-assisted MVC, e.g. Struts, Ruby on Rails, etc. Recent developments lead me to ask if these are on the decline. Adobe's AIR and Flex Microsoft's WPF and Silverlight Google...
The dangers of using ExtJS on a big project with RoR?
We are developing a considerably big application using Ruby on Rails framework (CRM system) and are considering to rewrite it to use ExtJS so that Rails would just do the data handling, while ExtJS would do all the browser heavylifting in a desktop-like manner. Anyone has some experience and hints about what would be the best approach?...
How to save the state of AJAX application using jQuery
I am just trying to dip my toes in this Ajax thing. I have a very basic question I have seen the UI plugin(http://interface.eyecon.ro/docs/drag) for jQuery, where you can drag and drop frames, stretch things, animate etc. So basically you get all the desktop features right in your web application. In the desktop world, you can save the...
I want to create a desktop like (RIA) web app, any feedback on frameworks
I have found related posts here but they don't apply completely. I want to create a desktop like (RIA) web app, and I have several constrains: I want to move as much computation as possible to the client and save money on hardware or hosting plans I don't want to compile (qooxdoo and gwt are out) I need to be able to create UI element...
Silverlight 2 UI pattern
I have to build small (for now) admin app in Silverlight2, and would like to use some pattern for binding UI with my BL/DAL. I found view-model-viewmodel and mvp/mvc patterns, where first one (V/M/VM) is specially suited for WPF apps, because it uses rich capabilities of WPF data-binding options. What do you suggest? Can you write simple...
Actionscript 3 outside of Flash / Flex
I've just finished a flash project where I did the entire project in "pure" AS3, without the use of the Flex framework. I found very little written about this on the web, so I'm not sure if this is a common way to develop RIA's, or if I've jumped off the shoulders of giants and done something stupid that will bite me later. It seemed...
RIA Server Architecture .NET
I'm using WebORB as a remote gateway for Flex projects. I was wondering what would be the best architecture to use on the Server .NET side. At this moment we are using SubSonic to generate a Data Access Layer. Besides that each call from Flex uses a little bit a transaction script pattern because the server side really only acts as a way...
The Big Tree: When to Release Data in an RIA
This question is about a Java JTree or a Window .Net Tree (Winforms) or an Adobe Flex Tree. In a client-server application (for Flex it's Web, really), I have a tree with hierarchical data (in a Windows Explorer type interface). Right now I lazily load up the tree as the user requests more data from the server. This is fine and will wor...
Is there a real need of a server side architecture for a RIA application?
Do we really need a server side architecture to create a RIA application? My idea is the following: Create a complete RIA application using only Html pages, JQuery and a full client side UI set of components (choose your poison between the large number of different components available open source and not) Server side I have just one ...
Anyone seen good embedded help in a web application?
I have a pretty simple app on the web (written in Flex) which is very straightforward to use once it has data inside it. The steps to get data inside it are themselves also pretty simple, but not at all obvious to my audience when they first log into my app. I have been wrestling with how to communicate the data setup process to my u...