Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  RIAs: The Technology Is Exciting, but They Really Do Help Users (06 Dec 2005) Recently, there has been a lot of talk about Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), how they work, and how to choose the appropriate RIA technology. Unfortunately, so far, we’ve had few discussions about the value of RIAs to users and how RIA technologies let us create better, more usable Web applications. This article addresses two questions: What is wrong with traditional, pre-RIA Web applications? How do RIAs remedy their problems? Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000041.php Read 25 more articles from User Experience Matters sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The future of HTML, Part 1: WHATWG          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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