Apollo becomes AIR

Posted by Charles | June 11, 2007 .

I’m sure it’s been all over the places now about the Apollo beta, actually Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime). So let me just summarize what the AIR come with.

Adobe AIR SDK has everything.
The runtime is 9 MB.
AIR needs (or better this way) Flex Builder 3 beta.
Under the hood, check it out the Flex 3 SDK beta. Everything should be there.
The HTML engine is WebKit opensource.
The Flash engine is Tamarin VM, opensource.
AIR support PDF rendering with a bit limitation.
The great AJAX focused IDE Aptana has AIR plug-in. Cool.
You can build just HTML/AJAX application. Therefor, AIR becomes a offline application development platform. That gives AJAX application a way out to the desktop world. Very interesting.