{"id":130,"date":"2002-10-21T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2002-10-22T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=130"},"modified":"2002-10-21T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2002-10-22T03:40:07","slug":"information-week-on-the-rich-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/21\/information-week-on-the-rich-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Week on the rich internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information Week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/story\/IWK20021017S0006\">on<\/a> the rich internet. Relevant quotes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;We had a pretty strong sense that we were losing customers,&#8217; says VP of IS Dennis Shockro (at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yankeecandle.com\/\">Yankee Candle<\/a>). The $380 million-a-year company also couldn&#8217;t tell how many customers bought products online or by telephone.&#8221; &gt;&gt; This is a rich internet problem?  Sounds to me like you have a poorly designed server side software application, not a problem with the presentation layer.<\/p>\n<p>More&#8230; &#8220;Forrester Research has coined the term &#8220;executable Internet&#8221; to describe these Web applications&#8211;largely based on Macromedia Inc.&#8217;s new line of Flash MX software&#8211;that harness computers&#8217; local processing power. &#8216;HTML pages are extremely limited in functionality,&#8217; says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrester.com\/Research\/List\/Analyst\/1,3768,178,00.html\">Harley Manning<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrester.com\/home\/0,6092,1-0,FF.html\">Forrester<\/a> analyst. &#8216;The interactivity drops to almost none.'&#8221; &gt;&gt; Ironic that the web was originally christened as bringing interactivity to the consumer&#8230; we were supposed to be leaving the one way communication to the radio and television and living this new exciting &#8216;interactive&#8217; revolution through the Web, but now that turns out to be false, at least according to Harley.  I&#8217;ve been living a lie! The web isn&#8217;t interactive! We need Flash to have interactivity!<\/p>\n<p>Most interesting though: &#8220;And sources say Microsoft is developing a new Windows user interface, code-named Avalon, based on vector graphics, and due in a future version of Windows code-named Longhorn.&#8221; If it&#8217;s cross platform, say goodbye to Flash.  Course, is Avalon really all about vector graphics? <a href=\"http:\/\/216.239.39.100\/search?q=cache:rCBaXu_8lMoC:www.wininsider.com\/news\/comments.aspx%3Fmid%3D1849+microsoft+avalon&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8\">This<\/a> story makes it seem like it&#8217;s a different kind of UI, something entirely different than the ability to bring interactivity to the web browser&#8230;  And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0%2C3959%2C368868%2C00.asp\">this<\/a> article portays it as &#8220;&#8230;  a layer of plumbing that will extend the existing Win32 development platform at the heart of Windows by building in support for the Longhorn networking, storage, digital-rights-management and graphics enhancements that Microsoft plans to build into Longhorn.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Week on the rich internet. Relevant quotes: &#8220;&#8216;We had a pretty strong sense that we were losing customers,&#8217; says VP of IS Dennis Shockro (at Yankee Candle). The $380 million-a-year company also couldn&#8217;t tell how many customers bought products online or by telephone.&#8221; &gt;&gt; This is a rich internet problem? Sounds to me like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/21\/information-week-on-the-rich-internet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Information Week on the rich internet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}