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- WNW3, on 04/07/2009, -1/+4I don't get how articles about AIR always make it to the front page. The only place I ever hear about this thing is on Digg.
- tim507, on 04/07/2009, -3/+4Im just sick of seeing all the same examples of AIR applications. I know Digg and Kuler and eBay and Twitter all have one.. shooowww moarrr pleasee. k thx bai.
- HellDonut, on 04/07/2009, -0/+1It's because Digg is more mainstream so you get more people voting. Everywhere else, it's hip to hate Flash/AIR/Adobe/RIAs/etc
- HellDonut, on 04/07/2009, -1/+2So you mean my Linux box will finally run 100% of the Silverlight spec? And not be 2 versions older? Sweet!
- annjay, on 04/07/2009, -7/+8This is simply an amazing collection of Adobe AIR resource. Great work SM!
- WNW3, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1Considering the amount of vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash and Acrobat lately I think the "hipness" may be justified
- XHashmeerX, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1Javascript and HTML can build AIR apps. AIR uses the Webkit engine.
- Saphes, on 04/18/2009, -0/+0I'm not using Adobd Anything until they work out all thier security and virus issues!
- zwei, on 04/07/2009, -1/+1Go away you glorified widgets...
- djhalon, on 04/07/2009, -0/+0AIR enables developers to use 100% JavaScript and Webkit to build applications. You don't have to use Flex or ActionScript 3 as you claim. Check out Yahoo's Sideline app which was built using YUI (http://sideline.yahoo.com/). AIR is hardly a "hack on top of Flash", there is a lot more to it then just that.
After using Silverlight for a while, I would say that it felt more like a hack until version 3 just rolled out (albeit the Visual Studio integration is sweet, especially for a C#/.NET development house). Even then, AIR is targeted for desktop development with web enabled functionality using existing RIA languages, vs. Silverlight which is more an in-browser RIA app targeting Flash, which is now just trying to break out of the browser. - jhecht, on 04/09/2009, -1/+0To people who keep saying "Adobe AIR" : AIR is an acronym meaning "Adobe Integrated Runtime." If you continually say Adobe AIR, you are literally saying Adobe Adobe Integrated Runtine. If you feel the need to give Adobe credit for making the stuff available, then do the proper grammatical thing and say "Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)." Otherwise, just say AIR. I think we all get what it means, and those who don't will wikipedia it and eventually get the answer.
- zwei, on 04/07/2009, -2/+1You see the same apps over and over because anything more complex would require more resources to run than your system has available. Adobe Kuler!? That simple color helper app is currently taking over 70MB of real memory on my system.
People who support this crap have no right whatsoever to bitch about iTunes being bloated. - filipf, on 04/07/2009, -3/+1Can't wait until Moonlight and Silverlight become more mature and widespread. They are the superior technology - you can use any .NET language you want (C#, C++, VB, Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, etc) and not just ActionScript. Plus Silverlight supports threading and has been designed for web from the ground up. It's not just a hack on top of Flash.
- creole, on 04/07/2009, -5/+2@tim507... read my comment at the end of that Smashing Magazine post:
I’d like to submit my Air application for consideration in the “Cool Adobe Air Applications” section. It’s called Shrinkadoo and allows the user to create short URLs based on the APIs of 26 (at the moment) short URL servers such as Digg, TinyURL, Snurl, Bitly, etc. It’s lightweight, easy to use, and also remembers the last 10 URLs created for easy reference.
http://andymatthews.net/code/Shrinkadoo/
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