Creating a Rich Internet For Everyone - How?

Hello Dave,

> Otherwise, the aim of RICHIE is not clear - is it
> published? 

  Well, RICHIE stands for RICH Internet for Everyone.
Now guess what? The aim of the RICHIE initiative is to
create a rich internet for everyone.

> I would like to understand what it is that is being 
> ignored and please don't spin me "RICHIE exists to 
> do the same thing, just
> different" because I can not draw comparisons
between
> that and the WHATWG.

  Well, what is ignored is that there are alternatives
to the plain-old browsers, the W3C and WHAT WG.

  May I quote Laurence Moroney - a senior architect
with the Reuters Innovation Labs and Rapid Development
Groups in New York City - from the DevX article titled
"XUL: The Gatekeeper to Higher-level Web UIs". Here we
go:

  Don't forget that XUL also gives you a miniature Web
server that you can embed in your apps to give
peer-to-peer functionality, a scripting interpreter
that is Python-based, and portal and template engines.
It all adds up to a pretty compelling framework. With
a rich and competent offering like Luxor XUL ready to
use, it's easy to wonder why anyone would wait for
XAML.

  Anyways, it's not about Luxor but about an
alternative next-gen browser architecture using modern
runtimes and new markup languages. Check out MyXaml
online @ http://www.myxaml.com for another
alternative.

  Any thoughts? Any comments?

  - Gerald


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