Editing Rich Internet Application (section)

{{Short description|Web application technology}}
{{About|legacy technology no longer used by modern browsers|its modern equivalent|Progressive web application}}

A '''Rich Internet Application''' (also known as a '''rich web application''',<ref name="flex3dummies">{{cite book |last=McCune |first=Doug |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lazbXwrxrasC |title=Adobe Flex 3.0 For Dummies |date=2009-02-23 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0470436820 |page=Chapter 1, "From HTML to RIA"}}</ref> '''RIA''' or '''installable Internet application''') is a [[web application]] that has many of the characteristics of desktop [[application software]]. The concept is closely related to a [[single-page application]], and may allow the user interactive features such as [[drag and drop]], background menu, [[WYSIWYG]] editing, etc. The concept was first introduced in 2002 by [[Macromedia]] to describe Macromedia Flash MX product (which later became [[Adobe Flash]]).<ref name=":0">[http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flash/whitepapers/richclient.pdf Macromedia Flash MX—A next-generation rich client]</ref> Throughout the 2000s, the term was generalized to describe browser-based applications developed with other competing browser plugin technologies including [[Java applet|Java applets]], [[Microsoft Silverlight]].

With the [[Deprecation#Software|deprecation]] of browser [[Plug-in (computing)|plugin]] interfaces and transition to standard [[HTML5]] technologies, Rich Internet Applications were replaced with JavaScript [[Web application|web applications]], including [[Single-page application|single-page applications]] and [[Progressive web application|progressive web applications]].