RIA

From AlertFox Website Monitoring

Following Wikipedia, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are web applications that have most of the characteristics of desktop applications, typically delivered either by way of a standards-based web browser or via a browser plug-in. Examples of RIA frameworks include Ajax, Curl, GWT, Adobe Flash/Adobe Flex/AIR, Java/JavaFX, Apache Pivot, Mozilla's XUL, OpenLaszlo and Microsoft Silverlight. AlertFox can be used to monitor all these RIA types.

Such web applications have characteristics of desktop applications. Rich Internet applications (RIAs) offer a rich, engaging experience that improves user satisfaction and increases productivity. Using the broad reach of the Internet, developers can deploy RIAs across browsers. RIAs differ primarily from other Internet applications in the amount of interaction in the interface. A traditional page-based Internet application limits interaction to a small set of standard controls such as checkboxes, radio buttons, form fields and buttons. This severely limits the ability to build usable and engaging applications, and most Internet applications have proven clumsier and more difficult to use than their desktop counterparts.