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Interactive applications
Interactive applications and web sites are becoming increasingly more popular. Lower prices of faster internet connection make possible for customers to browse these sites from their home computer. Internet has become a world wide multimedia portal, where people can get a lot more than just a web site with a few sentences and a picture. Internet allows us to use it for fun, information, education and most of all as our link to the world on daily basis. Standard web applications were very awkward and difficult to understand in comparison to desktop applications. The user was limited and did not have the chance to use the knowledge gained by using Word, Excel etc. with web applications. As the technology is evolving the gap between the web and desktop application is getting smaller. This enables us to create interactive web applications with desktop application characteristics and functions. They even enable animations and upgrading the elements. We enter RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) or Web 2.0 applications trough the web browser and we do not have to install them on the computer. These applications have the same characteristics as desktop applications (Word, Excel…).
Customers’ feedback shows that this kind of web site design helps to improve the product or service in the customers’ eyes. Instruments we use are: Prototype, JQuery, Flash, FLEX… Examples of today’s Rich Internet Applications are: Harley-davidson.com, gmail.com, youtube.com… Our RIA projects: zemljevid.najdi.si, presad.si, ...
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