Adobe have released a free PDF book on creating Adobe Air applications for JavaScript developers.
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
For those of you who have not heard, Adobe Air represents a fantastic advance in web development technologies. By using the HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the standard bread and butter for web developers, you can leverage those existing skills to create fully fledged desktop applications. Complete with standard OS install, uninstall procedures, custom taskbar(XP)/dock(Mac) icons, the works!
No messing around with C and MFC ( the horror!! ) when developing WinXP apps any more. Plus an Adobe Air app is platform independent. You can build an Adobe Air app and it will run on any OS that has the Adobe Air runtime installed. And what’s more, the Runtime Install procedure is the thing to behold too for it will install painlessly the first time you decide to download an Air app.
Adobe Air will change the way we understand the web, and continue to blur the line between the OS and the browser. It’s my guess for web technology of the year.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Damn son, when did you sell out.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I actually like Adobe AIR. The best bit is you can package existing HTML/CSS/JS, you don’t have to use Flash or rewrite your content. Only the “wrapper” is proprietary and that is fairly simple.