Welcome to RIA Practices

Welcome to '''RIA Practices'''!{BR}

On this site, [[http://www.jamesward.com|James Ward (Technical Evangelist for Adobe)]], [[http://www.joshholmes.com|Josh Holmes (UX Architect Evangelist for Microsoft)]] and others will collect and document a lot of practices both good and bad that we are seeing in the RIA space. This is a first step towards standardizing some of these practices across the board. 

See the post about the joint talk that Josh and James did that kicked all of this off at [[http://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2008/10/27/ArchitectureOfRIAFromJAOO.aspx|Architecture of RIA from JAOO]]

If you are interested in participating, feel free to register as a contributor and email Josh Holmes (josh.holmes (at) microsoft.com) to make sure that we approve you in a timely fashion. 


Some initial ideas for user interface / interactions we can document:{BR}
 - Indicating the default button{BR}
 - Multiple ways to submit a form: press enter in a field, submit button click, tab to submit button and press space, etc{BR}
 - Error messages that reappear (so the users knows the system actually did something){BR}
 - Disable mouseovers when scrolling on a scroll bar w/ mouse{BR}
 - Buttons as progress bars{BR}
 - Dealing with Session Timeout{BR}
 - Auto-complete ComboBox{BR}
 - Dragging (Drag Indicators, Drop Indicators, etc){BR}
 - Expand in place{BR}
 - Date / time selectors{BR}
 - [DealingwiththeBackandForwardHistoryButtons|Dealing with the Back and Forward History]{BR}
 - [DealingWithRefreshButton|Dealing with the Refresh Button]{BR}
 - [DealingWithApplicationLoadTime|Dealing Application Load Time]{BR}