RIA to RDA

we are wondering that RIA is "Rich Internet Applications" but what is RDA. RDA stands for "Rich Desktop Applications". we are now slowly moving from internet based Rich applications to desktop based similar applications. Below is the example of "MCrux File Browser".



As you can see the above file browser looks like a native application on windows. It uses various JavaScript frameworks like ExtJS and JQuery in the background to achieve richer look and feel.

We have used the FileSystem plugin of MCrux to access the actual filesystem and read the files and directories.

This can be served as a very good example of creating Richer GUI applications in desktop. Let's hope this will make the RIA to RDA dream come true.