Re:RIA, the next NEW thing? (Score 1)

Agreed consistency across browsers is a short coming of AJAX but that is why the author of the article was pushing Macromedia Flex for development of RIA's. With the flash player your basically getting another form of a JVM, something you can count on for keeping things consistent across browsers. Flash has pretty good browser penetration over 97% is claimed although I'm sure that is an exaggeration.