Adobe AIR is on Fire
Ajaxian published a very interesting article reflecting the latest events around Adobe AIR. Adobe Air is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
"AIR is building up a ton of steam just prior to it’s official v1.0 release," says the author of the article.
- New AIR Introspector - very similar to FireBug, but for AIR applications.
- Point at a user interface element and be able to see and edit the markup and DOM properties.
- An interactive console that lets you access references, adjust values and execute JavaScript code.
- Lists links, images, CSS and JavaScript assets loaded into your application.
- Provides for viewing the original markup and the current markup.
- Viewer for XHR objects including their properties and headers.
- Studio IDE - updated by Aptana to support AIR Beta
- Nasdaq and American Cancer Society will be leveraging AIR for specific projects, reported ComputerWorld. Using Adobe’s Flex and AIR, the Nasdaq created an application that can “can provide a replay of the quotes at the time of a trade — and associated prices on different markets — in seconds”. They’re also creating a Flex/AIR-based portal for physicians that will allow the doctors to access Cancer Society’s information via the web or in an offline mode.
In the end of the article are also discussesed the challenges Air is facing since very strong technologies from both Microsoft (SilverLight/.Net) and Mozilla (XULRunner) are serious challengers to the desktop space.
At this time Adobe has no plans to bundle AIR with the Flash Player.
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