This week Florian was attending the Ajax in Action conference in Mainz, Germany. He had several sessions & workshops in his "bag" and presented on hot topics within the space of UI development. Florian was one of the "not-only-Ajax-speakers", he was rather presenting on Ajax/Rich Client comparisons and when to use which technology approach. There is an interview with Florian which recently has been released on the conference page, the interview is available here for online reading.

Florian's comment about the conference:

"There is a slight movement in the Ajax UI space. New UI technologies are emerging and it is a tricky task to captivate the audience with 'JavaScript-only' frameworks. Of course the guys behind the frameworks still try to seed the message 'our JS-framework is the best in the world, you can use it for anything...', but usually this does not reflect reality and you can really feel that the audience knows about this. Rich Clients will not be the answer to all questions, the same way Ajax is not the answer to all questions. Both match for different kind of requirments, non of the two approaches is the holy gral for UI development..."

You can download Florian's session slides below. Of course the slides will give more sense in combination with "Live-examples", but maybe you can catch up the message as well based on slides-only...