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Adobe AIR article
Introducing Adobe AIR for Ajax developers
Kevin Hoyt
Platform Evangelist
Adobe
Table of Contents
Over the past decade, the web has flourished, fizzled a little with the dot-com bust, and re-invented itself with concepts such as Web 2.0 and social networking. Traditional browser limitations, such as the security sandbox, are perfectly acceptable for a broad category of web application, but sometimes you need more. By allowing web developers to extend their applications beyond the browser, Adobe AIR is poised to become a springboard for innovation in the next chapter in the life of web technologies—the desktop.
This content requires Flash
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you'll need the following software and files:
Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR SDK
Sample files:
- air_for_ajax.zip (ZIP, 96K)
Prerequisite knowledge
General experience of building applications with Flex, HTML, or Ajax is suggested, but this article is geared towards anyone interested in an overview of development techniques using Adobe AIR.
