{"id":1146,"date":"2008-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/12\/04\/1084\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T23:00:00","slug":"1084","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/12\/04\/1084\/","title":{"rendered":"The RIA and the Polyglot VM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>chromatic at O&#8217;Reilly Broadcast \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/broadcast.oreilly.com\/2008\/12\/the-ria-and-the-polyglot-vm.html\">The RIA and the Polyglot VM<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Of course, the obvious problem with this approach [of Silverlight, JavaFX, and Adobe AIR] is that a big blob of proprietary goo is only a solution for people who want to (or have permission to) get that goo all over their machines. Remember how boggled your bank was back in 2004\/2005 that you weren&#8217;t using Microsoft IE (or that no version of IE had ever run on your OS)? Imagine explaining to them that your 64-bit PC-BSD machine will never get a native version of AIR, and you&#8217;d really like to write a check.<\/p>\n<p>At least with bog-standard HTML and CSS (and sometimes, Ajax), the horrifyingly ugly interface works.<\/p>\n<p>The technical design is right, however. A powerful virtual machine, capable of hosting interoperable languages and expressing useful and distinct dialects could improve the state of network-savvy, ubiquitious applications. Don&#8217;t expect it to come from a proprietary blob, however &#8212; and don&#8217;t expect JavaScript to be the answer.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>chromatic at O&#8217;Reilly Broadcast \u2013 The RIA and the Polyglot VM: &#8222;Of course, the obvious problem with this approach [of Silverlight, JavaFX, and Adobe AIR] is that a big blob of proprietary goo is only a solution for people who want to (or have permission to) get that goo all over their machines. Remember how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}