Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) enhance user experience by providing dynamic, desktop-like functionalities in web applications without requiring extensive local installations. While they improve client-side interaction, developers must ensure usability to avoid complexity and frustration for users. The architecture of RIAs emphasizes effective design practices, compatibility across platforms, and maintaining user engagement through improved responsiveness and accessibility.

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6. RIA for me is all about expanding the experience for the user. Those "gray beards" amongst us remember the old days of just being happy seeing plain, static text show up in the browser . We've come a long way since then. While dynamic web sites have pushed us way beyond the simple pages of the old days, RIA is helping us now provide the same level of dynamic interaction on the client side as well. I think this is wonderful as it improves the entire process (server and client)! While we have a great opportunity here to help users, the challenge is to not actually make things more difficult . Like any new feature, the web is rife with examples of poorly designed and hard to use applications. It is not enough to learn how to make HTTP requests and change content dynamically, but rather how to do it well in ways that help the user and not scare them off. Raymond Camden http://www.insideria.com/2008/01/what-is-ria-1.html

7. But the term still begs the question: Rich in what sense? Responsiveness, immediacy, convenience? production values, chrome, animation? http://www.insideria.com/2008/01/what-is-ria-1.html Christian Crumlish

8. Rich Internet applications (RIA) are web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications . RIAs typically transfer the processing necessary for the user interface to the web client but keep the bulk of the data (i.e., maintaining the state of the program, the data, etc.) back on the application server . RIAs typically: run in a web browser , or do not require software installation run locally in a secure environment called a sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_application

9. Back Button and Refresh Visual Vocabulary State management Browser Sandbox Business Logic in UI Component Level Logic Animation new for Desktop Developers new for Web Developer What’s different with RIA? Limited Runtime Service Orientation Non-text based layout Hype

10. Ubiquity Richness Next Generation

11. SharePoint ASP.NET+AJAX Gadgets Silverlight Infopath OBA Winforms WPF XNA Ubiquity Richness Next Generation

12. cross-browser, cross-platform, cross-device for building and delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web

13. Legend V2 Legend V1.0 CLR Execution Engine Framework HTML DOM Integration XAML Networking JSON REST POX RSS Data LIN Q XLINQ DLR Ruby Python WPF Extensible Controls BCL Generics Collections Inputs Keyboard Mouse Ink Media VC1 WMA MP3 Browser Host Integrated Networking Stack Installer Application Services MS AJAX Library UI Core Vector Text Animation Images DRM Media Controls Layout Editing

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28. MVP Pattern View is more loosely coupled to the model Easier to unit test Usually view to presenter map one to one Complex views may have multi presenters MVC Pattern Controller are based on behaviors and can be shared across views Can be responsible for determining which view to display (Front Controller Pattern)

35. Uses tiled image pyramids The overhead of pyramids is 33%:

36. Preprocessing tool breaks image into 256 x 256 tiles Then generates pyramids of tiles at lower resolutions

37. When the image is displayed on the client the lowest resolution tiles are shown first Then as the higher quality tiles are downloaded, they are smoothly blended in

38. When the image is displayed on the client the lowest resolution tiles are shown first Then as the higher quality tiles are downloaded, they are smoothly blended in

39. When the image is displayed on the client the lowest resolution tiles are shown first Then as the higher quality tiles are downloaded, they are smoothly blended in

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51. Cookies are on a domain level bar.com cannot access foo.com cookies… Same domain - http://foo.com is different than http://bar.foo.com or http://www.foo.com Same protocol - http://foo.com is different than https://foo.com Same port - http://foo.com is different than http://foo.com:8080 foo.com should feel secure storing user data in cookies Prevent cross-site forgery Exploits a sites trust for a user

53. “ Private” services (for your own app) DO use browser-based authentication Cookies, HTTP Auth, etc. DO NOT enable public access via cross-domain policy file “ Public” services (for 3rd-party apps) DO NOT use browser-based authentication DO publish cross-domain policy files DO use “cross-domain-safe” authentication E.g. URL signatures DO separate public services in their own domain E.g. api.flickr.com vs. www.flickr.com

59. 1.0 minimal Accessibility support We only provide some root “alt” information No focus and keyboard support 2.0 Accessibility greatly improved Full keyboard support Decorate XAML UI elements with Accessibility info Add accessibility to custom controls Accessibility reader support (AT) Accessibility tree exposition for UIA Note - UIA on Windows, OS X does not support accessible plug-ins

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66. private void Application_Startup( object sender, StartupEventArgs e) { string startPageParameter = "/StartPage" ; if (!e.InitParams.ContainsKey(startPageParameter)) { this .RootVisual = new DefaultStartPage(); } else { switch (e.InitParams[startPageParameter]) { case "DefaultStartPage" : this .RootVisual = new DefaultStartPage(); break ; case "NonDefaultStartPage" : this .RootVisual = new NonDefaultStartPage(); break ; default : throw new Exception ( "/StartPage must be 'DefaultStartPage' or 'NonDefaultStartPage'." ); } } }

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97. Rich Internet Applications are meant to enhance user experience Architecture of the client matters Use good development practices Leverage the framework Build for the user Don’t get religious Take-aways

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