Introduction
The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a new product from Adobe, released in the spring of 2008. It allows web developers and web designers to use the skills they already have to build rich desktop applications. Revolutionary in many ways, AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that is light-weight yet powerful. Many naysayers might comment that AIR gives you a capability that is already covered in competing products (you can build desktop applications with other tools). But AIR excels in its easy-to-learn application programming interface (API) and in its capability to take existing web applications and add powerful desktop features that are either impossible to do from a browser or prone to browser differences, making ...
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