http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair Thoughts on Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and RIA development Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:17:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sitepen has put together an application called the Dojo Toolbox built on Adobe AIR that gives you access to Dojo's APIs and source code documentation regardless of whether or not you have an internet connection. You can also make use of the Dojo build tool which lets you manage dependencies, ... http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/2008/07/08/get-offline-access-to-dojo-resources-with-adobe-air/ Ethan Malasky gave a talk on the tour about Developing Secure AIR Applications. In the talk he covers how to update and deploy AIR applications securely and he also gets into the guts of the HTML security sandbox. It's one of the best talks from the tour so if you're ... http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/2008/06/28/ethan-malasky-on-developing-secure-air-applications/ We've wrapped things up on the first week of the on AIR Tour Europe and are spending today talking to developers in Prague. The first three stops were Stockholm, Berlin, and Warsaw. We had great crowds at all of them with a lot of good questions and some interesting demos ... http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/2008/06/09/lots-of-excitement-for-adobe-air-in-europe/ We're doing the final leg of the on AIR Tour Europe in a couple of weeks and so far registration has been great and there are a couple of cities that are sold out but we still have slots in a few of them. If you're interested in checking out ... http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/2008/05/15/on-air-tour-europe-almost-sold-out/ During our on AIR London event I sat down with Jeremy Baines from Howard/Baines to talk about their AIR application for FriendFeed, AlertThingy. They had no AIR experience before they started and it's a pure HTML/JavaScript application so he has some good insight on getting started with the platform. Of course ... http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/2008/05/13/interview-with-jeremy-baines-from-alertthingy/ We are announcing the Open Screen Project today in an effort to free up a lot of the restrictions around the Flash Player and make it easy to port to any device you want. We are removing any restrictions on the SWF, FLV, and F4V specifications as well as planning ... http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/2008/04/30/adobes-open-screen-project/ Dion Almaer and I gave a talk at Web 2.0 Expo titled "Taking the Web Offline and On the Desktop" which covered some general information about the space and then drilled down into more details about Google Gears and Adobe AIR. The talk also got into how these two technologies ... http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/2008/04/28/web-20-expo-taking-the-web-offline-and-on-the-desktop/ We've got a pocketguide for people who want to build AIR applications with JavaScript available now for download over at Ajaxian. We had a previous version available for the beta but this one has been updated with all of the 1.0 features and changes. The book is licensed under a Creative ... http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/2008/04/17/adobe-air-for-javascript-developers-pocketguide-now-available/ We just released a public version of AIR on Linux as well as the tooling in Flex Builder for Linux to create AIR applications. Adobe really wants to provide full support on Linux for our RIA technologies. We'd love to hear what you think so please submit feedback and help ... http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/2008/03/30/air-linux-alpha-available/ Yesterday on TechCrunch was a guest post by Matthew Gertner who works for Prism, a cool technology from Mozilla that lets you create desktop applications out of any website. Matthew does a pretty good job of laying out part of the scene but I think he misses an important point. ... http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/2008/03/24/site-specific-browsers-versus-desktop-applications/