Adobe AIR Beta 3 released

Adobe released the beta 3 version of Adobe AIR. This runtime is required to run any Adobe AIR application.

Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

Adobe AIR Beta 3 includes the following new features:

• Applications built on Adobe AIR Beta 3 can register to run at start-up/log-in.
• Web Launcher provides the ability to detect and launch an installed AIR application from a web browser.
• Support for H.264 video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC).
• Full Screen Hardware acceleration.
• Flash within HTML Support allows Flash content to be integrated within HTML based applications.
• Adobe AIR also supports automatic runtime updates, similar to how Adobe Flash Player can be updated.
• Thawte offers an Adobe AIR developer certificate, so developers can certify applications built on Adobe AIR are from a trusted source.
• Support for the Mac OSX Leopard operating system.

If you have created AIR applications and made them publicly available, Adobe AIR team highly recommend to update your project and installer badge.

Download Adobe AIR Beta 3. This runtime contains a timeout that will cause it to stop working on November 1, 2008.