Introduction
The Web. A wise man once said: “The Web is like a box of chocolates.”
Well, sure, if you can find a box of chocolates that constantly jumps up in your face when you try to open it and is filled with, shall we say, adult chocolates?
It used to be that you could slap some HTML up on a server and call it a web page, and people would love you for it. Not anymore! Now, we've moved into the realm of web applications, where some useful function has to be performed. More than that, though, it's got to look cool and work in a slick, “modern” way.
That's where the term RIA, or rich Internet application, comes from. People now expect a certain degree of “coolness” when they hit a website. They expect the experience to be more like the native ...
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