Sean Neville on RIAs

There are a number of reasons to use Flash for rich internet application development, but one of the most compelling reasons, is the ability to deliver not just cross platform, but even cross-device applications.

This Sean Neville interview on the serverside talks about RIA development using Flash. Here is an excerpt:

Yes Flash does work on a number of devices and PDAs and there's more in the works. It's a very important piece of our strategy so there are a lot of exciting things happening there. In a world in which the same pieces of data need to be exchanged between applications that reside on multiple devices, whether it's potentially sharing data with my PDA, my iPod, my TiVo, my laptop, my desktop, the server that you use, you know I need to be able to share a lot of data with a lot of different devices in my own personal world. So if Flash is going to be one of the leading application client containers for replicating that sort of data, then it needs to run on those devices.

The closest anything gets to this is Java. But I'm not sure how easy or difficult it is to port the same code across devices...

[via Christian Cantrell]

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