Great for web vendors who want a desktop presence. Existing Flash developers can easily use their skills to build AIR applications.Ĩ. Adobe is proving the point by creating a media player built with AIR. This is Flash, so ideal for highly customized UIs, animation, sound and video. Synchronization is the difficult part of enabling offline support in occasionally connected applications.ħ. Synchronization services provided you use LiveCycle. AIR applications have use of a fast local database.Ħ. Provided the runtime has installed successfully, installing AIR applications is likely to be be trouble-free, since all the files go into the application directory.ĥ. In the case of HTML, AIR apps rely on WebKit, the core component in Apple’s Safari web browser.Ĥ. Easy conversion of existing Flex or HTML applications. AIR apps will run on Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel), Linux (though not in the beta).ģ. ActionScript 3.0 has a JIT (just-in-time) compiler, putting it on a par with Java or. In essence, AIR is the Flash player supplemented by additional features to enable applications that are not browser-hosted, but installed as desktop applications. AIR is great for some scenarios, weak for others. I attended two days of briefings on Adobe’s developer-focused products, especially the forthcoming AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime).
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