Talk:Rich Internet Application

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I would like to point out that the code for the Visual Layout Editor of the Curl (programming language) IDE has been available to developers for many years - prior to Curl moving to an eclipse plugin.

The Curl VLE is itself written in Curl, as is the Curl documentation viewer with its "live" code {example } macros.

G. Robert Shiplett 19:21, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Is this article still meaningful?
So, I notice that Ember just got added to this article, and I'm guessing if that can be justified then Angular and other MVC frameworks can't be far behind, which raises the question: what is the point of this article? In this context RIA seems like it's just an antiquated term for single-page application, and the article fails to differentiate itself except with a bolted on history of browser plugins. Should we pick some kind if cut-off point and have veering thing after that discussed as SPAs? Or merge to that article, which probably means deleting most of this article? Or just cut our losses and make this page a redirect? Artw (talk) 13:52, 18 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I see your point that this is an insanely broad term, but keep in mind (imo) it's easy to argue that a SPA is a subset of the types of RIA, and certainly not the other way around. JavaServer Faces, for example, is much closer to being an analog for ASP.NET WebForms than a single-page app. They're both interface templating technologies that don't necessarily encourage true SPA qua "The page does not reload at any point in the process" development. Not that Angular or KnockoutJS do necessarily either.


 * Now why Application isn't capitalized in this entry's title, I have no idea. ;^) Rufwork (talk) 14:30, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

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"Rich Internet Application"
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 * Rich Internet Application

Shouldn't it be "rich Internet application" (lowercase, except for the proper noun)? --Mortense (talk) 14:05, 21 November 2019 (UTC)


 * The page is called Rich web application now, with proper capitalization. Anton.bersh (talk) 07:55, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * This should never have been moved. "Rich Internet Application", while no longer the buzzworthy phrase that had the cachet it once did, at least passes the threshold of having been once widely accepted and in common use.  "Rich web application" is not now and to my knowledge never has been in common use and strikes me as the product of a (fairly naive) attempt to take initiative and reconcile the "RIA" terminology with the post-plugin world of contemporary Web apps—i.e. invented on Wikipedia.  It needs to be moved back. -- C. A. Russell ( talk ) 14:37, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Aside from the WP:COMMONNAME problems described, there's also the issue that "the Web" and "the Internet" are not synonyms and it's a mistake to treat them as if they are (cf ); "rich web applications" is a strictly narrower class of software than "rich internet applications", which includes plenty of stuff not of the Web—and notably, lots of stuff for which the label "rich internet application" was *actually* applied to in the wild (rather than being merely classified as such by encyclopedia article editors)... -- C. A. Russell ( talk ) 14:49, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 28 June 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:09, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Rich web application → Rich Internet Application – See WP:COMMONNAME and the comments in the section above: Talk:Rich web application. -- C. A. Russell ( talk ) 14:59, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support based on Google Ngrams. First, disregarding capitalization, "rich internet application" remains considerably higher than "rich web application" . Second, among capitalizations for RIA, "Rich Internet Application" is about as high as both "rich Internet application" and "rich internet application" combined . This also avoids the confusing title of Rich Internet application (RIa?) that would follow from Wikipedia generally capitalizing Internet. &#123;&#123;replyto&#124; SilverLocust &#125;&#125; (talk) 05:33, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Post-move comments
The thing to be aware of (re User:SilverLocust's ngrams methodology) is that (a) ngrams are going to be necessarily constrained to 2002 or later, but (b) following Wikipedia's own move, lots of other places will have picked up and followed suit since for better or worse they assume that the decisions behind Wikipedia's "position" are well reasoned—and so they end up *generating* occurrences of the phrase. I don't think it's a major issue in this case. I mean, it did happen—other sources with a copycat attitude *did* pop up using the same terminology; it's just that this isn't a huge contentious topic (yet?). -- C. A. Russell ( talk ) 22:53, 7 July 2023 (UTC)