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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible
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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

by Joseph Lowery
March 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1321 pages
46h 24m
English
Wiley
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C
omputing has permeated every aspect of modern life. From check-
ing the weather in the morning from an online service and buying
movie tickets online in the afternoon to using a restaurant finder
application on your mobile device to locate a nearby buffet—and the GPS
on your phone to get there—it’s a highly connected world. Adobe AIR was
developed to spread the ease of rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the
desktop, for both the developer and the end user. AIR applications run
on any platform—Windows, Mac, and, soon, Linux—and can be quickly
developed using well-known Web technologies, including HTML and
JavaScript, or Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex.
Dreamweaver provides an excellent AIR development environment. Devel-
opers can prototype their AIR apps in Dreamweaver using HTML and
advanced JavaScript, including Ajax frameworks. Once the RIA is ready for
testing, it can be previewed right from within Dreamweaver and even pack-
aged, ready to distribute.
This chapter provides an overview of AIR and then explains how to set up
the AIR extension to Dreamweaver. Numerous techniques for developing
HTML and JavaScript applications are provided as well as a full explanation
of how to use Dreamweaver to package your AIR application for deployment.
About Adobe AIR
If you think of Earth as a very large desktop and outer space as the Web,
then AIR is…well, air. Adobe AIR is positioned at t ...
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