RIAs ie. Revlets

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Aug 29 19:18:34 EDT 2009


Jim Bufalini wrote:
> Been giving a lot of thought to what people would expect and what looks good
> as an RIA (Rich Internet Application) which is basically what a revlet or
> stack running inside a browser is.
> 
> For example, fixed width is OK, but fixed height is not really. Typical
> desktop menus don't translate well into the look and feel people expect on
> the web. RIAs are generally like an editor, that has all the functionality
> of say a MS Word, but is embedded in a webpage without all the menus and
> structure of an MS Word.

It would be nice if we could get a resizeStack message when the 
containing element's size changes.  Good idea.

At a minimum it would be very good to have scaling as Flash supports; 
useful in some desktop apps too:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6589>


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