The word 'app' has been in news for a long time. Nowadays, when you refer to apps, most people assume that you are talking about mobile applications. But that does not mean that web applications are not popular – everyday most of us use a number of web apps. DropBox, LastPass, Gmail, Googl...

Adobe AIR or the Adobe Integrated Runtime, is a RIA building tool that offers a cross-platform runtime environment. It has brought together Adobe software such as Adobe Flex, Adobe Flash, Ajax and HTML on one common platform. The core purpose of this runtime environment is to help a developer crea...

For businesses, a well-defined and highly efficient web strategy is of paramount importance. But what is equally important is the implementation of that strategy with Rich Internet Applications (RIA) so that the applications are user friendly, and immensely functional. A few years ago, development o...

It’s been long since we used to perceive rich internet applications (RIAs) as the future of the web. They have come true to their expectations and are currently a significant part of the web phenomenon where they are successfully overcoming the shortcomings of the standard web applications lik...