The importance of user interface technologies and frameworks often is underestimated completely . This may result in a successfully delivered applications with a top backend but one large problem: lack of acceptance from the users. And lack of acceptance usually results in finger pointing between customer and vendor since the customer blames the development team for having build an application which does not meet their expectations and the development team insists on having implemented all requirements. And quite often this is the end of a relationship between customer and vendor.... There are many things which can be done wrong when deciding for a UI technology and these wrong decisions might cause situations like the situation described above. This article chalks out typical drivers for wrong UI decisions and points out solutions how to sail around these frontend traps...
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Tags: UI choice, Rich Client

Great news for Flex developers (and Flex consumers!) - not just from a technical point of view, as this anouncement contains a symbolic character, as well:

Google and Yahoo! anounced SWF searchability!

This means that a search executed in Google now should be able to include contents of Flex RIAs, even dynamic content!

We prepared a little experiment...let’s see whether searching for Flex Button labels works!Read full post...

Tags: Rich Client, showcase