techcrunch.com — Apollo will be useful for running desktop versions of critical web applications like email and calendaring, where offline access and application speed is sometimes important. Potential developers are already taking notice: eBay is working on a project called ?San Dimas? to run on Apollo, although there are no announced plans to release it yet.
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myschizobuddyDec 17, 2006
@gedw99WPF/E isn't cross platform yet. Flash is. It run in all browsers and most OSes including Linux. Its highly doubtful that WPF/E will support Linux or even macs for that matter
tybrisDec 17, 2006
Java Web Start.
mtappendenDec 17, 2006
Smells of poo in here
industrealisDec 17, 2006
I was under the impression that Apollo was a sort of wrapper around web technologies like AJAX, Flash, and Flex. It's supposed to allow the typical web application to run on the desktop as a desktop application would. This would allow you to use gmail like thunderbird as long as Google (or whoever provides the app), giving it the ability to run offline and perhaps have access to some of the desktop that web apps have traditionally been barred from (disk I/O, network interfaces, etc). Vaporware marketing bulls**t? If that's marketing, then maybe I should be studying that instead of computer science.
chaduDec 17, 2006
especially since you showed up.
gauthiermDec 17, 2006
How is this different from XUL which already does "allow developers to take rich internet applications, whether they be built on Flash, HTML, JavaScript and/or Ajax, and turn them into desktop applications?"
lilzaphodDec 17, 2006
I've seen it running. Hell, I have the installers in my back pack right now, but I'm too busy to install it.It's in a closed Beta state right now for people like Ebay, etc. Go to a user group meeting where there Adobe representitves are there, and there's a good chance you'll get to see it as well.Vaporware my ass.
suppaibegDec 17, 2006
I think they already have dropped the ball. Just on the fact that WPF projects will use DirectX for some things, obviously such things won't work on the Mac plugin, so MS is already treating Mac users like 3rd class citizens. I can't think of any Mac user who would be stupid enough to install the plugin. You can be sure it runs like s**t, probably has plenty of security vulnerabilities, not to mention Microsoft's tendency to go limp and pull out recently (such as IE, WMP, VPC on the Mac). Will the hacks at MS really stick it out and support a PLUGIN? Making it up to par with the Windows version? LOL Microsoft is attempting to cut the head off the baby known as RIA's just as its about to really come into being. Lets hope people aren't as stupid when they did this with the web 5+ years ago.
superzornApr 24, 2007
Ummm... sweet!
poplopMay 23, 2008
I've seen it running. Hell, I have the installers in my back pack right now, but I'm too busy to install it.<a class="user" href="http://ru-t.com/about">http://ru-t.com/about</a>антимаулнетизм
pepkoJul 25, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://forexmax.ru/">http://forexmax.ru/</a>ash, HTML, JavaScript and/or Ajax, and turn them into desktop applications?"
kirilloffAug 22, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://tune-zone.com/">http://tune-zone.com/</a>Adobe's monopoly is now up for a test that it has NEVER had to submit to, and the FAT lady is about to sing.