CHAPTER 19BUILDING AIR APPLICATIONS WITH FLASH CS4
The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is to the desktop what the Flash Player is to the browser. You could say that Adobe AIR is a like a plug-in for your operating system, but what it really does is give you the benefits of being connected to the Internet while at the same time being a first-class citizen on the host computer, breaking the constraints of living within the web browser!
So what does the runtime integrate exactly? At the heart of AIR are three big pillars:
- The WebKit Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) rendering engine
- The Flash Player
- SQLite as a database engine
Because of these three ...
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