Wednesday, 16 April 2008

InfoWorld loves Adobe AIR

Over at InfoWorld there is a nice testimonial to AIR and its capabilities. Here's a little snip:

"But the weekend before I was due to deliver my working prototypes of the Windows Sentinel Web and mobile front ends, I saw that the Adobe AIR SDK and the companion plug-ins for Dreamweaver and Flash had just been released for download. I figured, "Let's see what AIR can do." Less than two hours later, I was able to essentially export my mobile Web pages into desktop widgets. Better, Adobe AIR produces a single executable that runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X Leopard - and, soon, Linux."


View it here.

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Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Adobe AIR makes top 10 emerging technologies of 2008

Over at Technology Review, our preferred - and, of course, recommended - development platform has made their top 10 emerging technologies of 2008 under the heading "Offline Web Applications".

Somewhat unsurprisingly, Silverlight is nowhere to be seen.

Read more here