April 2008
Beginner
204 pages
3h 48m
English
book
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
by Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Kevin Hoyt, Dragos Georgita
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR is a cross-platform desktop runtime created by Adobe that allows web developers to use web technologies to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and web applications to the desktop.
Note
During its development cycle, Adobe AIR was referred to in public by its code name of “Apollo”.
To better understand what Adobe AIR enables, and which problems it tries to address, it is useful to first take a look at the (relatively short) history of web applications.
A Short History of Web Applications
Over the past couple of years, there has been an accelerating trend of applications moving from the desktop to the web browser. This has been driven by a number of factors, which include:
Growth of the Internet as a communication medium
Relative ease of deployment of web applications
Ability to target multiple operating systems via the browser
Maturity of higher-level client technologies, such as the browser and the Flash Player runtime
Early web applications were built primarily with HTML and JavaScript, which, for the most part, relied heavily on client/server interactions and page refreshes. This page refresh model was consistent with the document-based metaphor for which the browser was originally designed, but provided a relatively poor user experience when displaying applications.
With the maturation of the Flash Player runtime, however, and more recently with Ajax-type functionality in the browser, it became possible for developers to begin ...
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