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From: blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly
Date: 14 Jul 2014 22:46:35 GMT
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In article <53c1daf4$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/12/2014 8:36 PM, ĵess stone wrote:
> > In article 53c14f85$0$294$14726298@news.sunsite.dk, Arne Vajhøj said...
> >
> >> On 7/12/2014 9:47 AM, ĵess stone wrote:
> >>> In article JavaFX-20140712051556@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de, Stefan Ram
> >>> said...
> >>>>         »the days of the RIA« »are long gone«
> >>>
> >>> What is the RIA?
> >>
> >> Why not Google it.
> >
> > Why not tell me? It's obviously not a state secret, not if Googling it
> > could possibly avail me of anything...
> 
> 
> You will be way better of by learning to Google such stuff instead of
> asking for it.
> 
> But if you insist: Rich Internet Application.
> 

For what it's worth, when I tried a Google search on "RIA" I didn't
get this meaning in the first couple of screenfuls' worth of hits.
It popped right up, though, when I added "Java" as a second screen
term.  Do you get a different result?  So, much as I hate to agree
with anything said by The Poster Of Many Names, I think he might have
a point in this case.

-- 
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer:  I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.