David Adobe AIR supports enterprise deployment. There; I’ve said it. We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this message out, so I wanted to be clear about this right up front.
Now, before anyone jumps all over me for this one, I’m also sure we could do a better job of supporting enterprise deployment. If you’ve deployed AIR in an enterprise setting and have thoughts on what we could do better, please send them our way.
Under the hood, Flash and Flex are closely related. Both work with ActionScript 3.0, both output to a SWF format, and both use Flash Player 9 to display their content. But they are very different in what they are good at. Flash started life as an animation program and developed more features as time went on, but animation is still one of its strongest points, and is more in line with what Adobe is intending it for in their modern suite of tools. Flex by contrast is really good at developing applications and the things that are associated with it—charting, handling data, and such. Sure, it can do animation, but the kinds of animation that Flex focuses on are things such as transitions that take place as menus expand, or items such as images scaling to different sizes in different states.
The AIR browser API lets web applications detect, install, and launch AIR applications. There are some restrictions on its use, however:
Applications have to opt-in to the detect and launch capability. This is done by specifying
Adobe today announces AIR 1.0. In their words, here are how it’s important for Developers and for How it’s good for business.
For Developers:
The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems. It’s for all developers like AJAX, Adobe Flex Developers and Adobe Flash Developers.
When I testing the open-source components of Yahoo,video-flash.de made a small flash MP3 player and shared the source code.He/Her wrote it in German,I translated it into English.
Free Orkut Themes
First you have to make sure that you meet all the requirements before you can start using these themes.
Requirements:
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This lightweight JavaScript allows for easy color transitions. Add fading effects to tables, divs and more. You can target an elements background, border or text color.
Do you ever wanted to get started with BlazeDS? A bug bit me yesterday that forced me to sit at my computer for hours on end until I could achieve two things: setting up Amazon’s EC2 Webservice and getting up and running with BlazeDS.
I had to do quite a bit of hunting due to my inexperience with a few things, which led me to the conclusion that someone else out there might want to benefit from my Googling and bookmarking.
Anyone who is on a Mac should be able to follow along fairly easily, and if you’re on Windows, it shouldn’t be too bad to translate.