Category Archives: PDF

RIAs on the Web, on the Desktop, and in a PDF

By James Ward | Published: September 13, 2009
Some believe that the “Internet” in “rich Internet application” (RIA) means that RIAs must only run in the browser. However my definition of RIA is not constrained to only web-based applications. RIAs can run anywhere: web, desktop, mobile devices, TVs, or even inside PDFs. Ideally we should have some level of code [...]
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Portable RIAs Gaining Traction

By James Ward | Published: April 3, 2009
It’s great to see the concept of Portable RIAs beginning to crop up in real world applications. The latest one I’ve seen is on ESPN – allowing the user to check out the latest March Madness updates from within a PDF. Check it out:
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Adobe Reader 9.1 for Linux Released!

By James Ward | Published: March 25, 2009
Adobe has released Adobe Reader 9.1 for Linux! This is the first 9.x release on Linux and has a number of new features. My personal favorite is the inclusion of Flash Player so that Portable RIAs will work on Linux! Portable RIAs are beginning to catch on more and so it’s great [...]
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Portable RIAs – Flex Apps in PDFs

By James Ward | Published: November 5, 2008
Update: I’ve posted another Portable RIA demo. The web began as a platform for browsing, finding, and exchanging documents. Over the past ten years the web has moved beyond this document-centric role, and is now a platform for exchanging data. We typically refer to web sites used for data exchange as web applications. The next major [...]
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