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Thoughts on Rich Clients and Ajax Flying back home in style (err, Southwest Airlines) after the recent Ajax Summit, I considered the "rich client" versus web app debate. With the emergence of Ajax, its gotten harder to choose between the two. After seeing what folks are doing with Ajax at the summit, its gotten *really* harder.
Sure, those doing crazy wild 3D stuff, heavy-duty client-side calculations, complicated off-line operations, and so forth will want to use rich client technologies. But for your average business form application, ajaxian frameworks are making it easy to create rich user interaction -- the "rich" in "rich clients." As cool as Java Web Start and .NET one-click is, nothing trumps a browser for ease-of-deployment.
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