"Adobe AIR brings new hope to Web developers," James Borck begins his look at the tool for building RIAs (rich Internet apps).
"AIR packages Web-enabling technologies and RIAs (rich Internet applications), and enables them to run outside of the browser on the user's local desktop," Borck explains. "The resulting application gains access to OS features such as dragging and dropping to and from the local file system, clipboard access for cutting and pasting between AIR and other applications, network connectivity, and perhaps most noteworthy, offline functionality."
What's more, AIR apps are a snap to build.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 21, 2008 07:35 AM
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