Rich Internet Application (RIA) Market Research Reports

A Rich Internet Application (RIA) is a Internet software that has most of the traits of desktop application software program, usually delivered by means of a website-specific browser, a browser plug-in, an impartial sandbox, in depth use of JavaScript, or a digital machine. Adobe Flash, JavaFX, and Microsoft Silverlight are at present the three most common platforms, with desktop browser penetration rates around 96%, 76%, and sixty six% respectively (as of August 2011). Mobile phone penetration of these plugins, nonetheless, has remained low whilst web site visitors from these units has grown. Although new Net standards have emerged, they nonetheless use the ideas behind RIAs.

Users typically need to install a software framework utilizing the pc's operating system earlier than launching the applying, which typically downloads, updates, verifies and executes the RIA. This is the principle differentiator from JavaScript-primarily based alternate options like Ajax that use constructed-...
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A Rich Internet Application (RIA) is a Internet software that has most of the traits of desktop application software program, usually delivered by means of a website-specific browser, a browser plug-in, an impartial sandbox, in depth use of JavaScript, or a digital machine. Adobe Flash, JavaFX, and Microsoft Silverlight are at present the three most common platforms, with desktop browser penetration rates around 96%, 76%, and sixty six% respectively (as of August 2011). Mobile phone penetration of these plugins, nonetheless, has remained low whilst web site visitors from these units has grown. Although new Net standards have emerged, they nonetheless use the ideas behind RIAs.

Users typically need to install a software framework utilizing the pc's operating system earlier than launching the applying, which typically downloads, updates, verifies and executes the RIA. This is the principle differentiator from JavaScript-primarily based alternate options like Ajax that use constructed-in browser functionality to implement comparable interfaces. As can be seen on the Checklist of rich Internet software frameworks which includes even server-facet frameworks, whereas some consider such interfaces to be RIAs, some take into account them competitors to RIAs; and others, together with Gartner, deal with them as related but separate technologies.

RIAs dominate in on-line gaming in addition to applications that require entry to video capture (with the notable exception of Gmail, which makes use of its personal process-specific browser plug-in). Web requirements comparable to HTML5 have developed and the compliance of Internet browsers with these requirements has improved somewhat. However, the necessity for plug-in primarily based RIAs for accessing video seize and distribution has not diminished, even with the emergence of HTML5 and JavaScript-based desktop-like widget sets that present various options for cellular Net browsing.
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