Next-generation Web app frameworks deliver results
During the Internet boom, there were a variety of software vendors — many now gone, such as Curl and Altio — touting a technology known variously as Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), X Internet applications, and Web apps; New Rowley calls these solutions UI apps. The goal was to replace server-generated Web pages — pages, such as shopping carts, that require a roundtrip to the server for any update — with interactive, desktop-like software. A large...
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