Internet Applications on the Desktop - Adobe Air
July 27th, 2007 by Chris
Check out Adobe Air - the Adobe Integrated Runtime. Basically Adobe’s answer to Java FX from Sun, Microsoft’s Silverlight and Mozilla’s XUL Runner. Rich Media Interfaces are becoming more proliferant. The interesting part of Adobe Air is that you can program interactive apps that live on the desktop with the same tools, that web developers have learned their skills with: CSS, HTML, Javascript, including Ajax, and Flash of course. Also, the windows, in which Air apps run, can be transparent or rounded or basically any shape. Air includes the SQLite database, just like Google Gears, so SQL apps and offline storage of large data files becomes possible. This is the future!
