Chapter 7. HTML content
About the HTML environment
AIR uses WebKit (www.webkit.org), also used by the Safari web browser, to parse, layout, and render HTML and JavaScript content. Using the AIR APIs in HTML content is optional. You can program an the content of an HTMLLoader object or HTML window entirely with HTML and JavaScript. Most existing HTML pages and applications should run with few changes (assuming they use HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript features compatible with WebKit).
Because AIR applications run directly on the desktop, with full access to the file system, the security model for HTML content is more stringent than the ...
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