After deciding to install some new AIR apps and get an idea of whats being developed I headed over to AOL where they are featuring a top 100 video application.
In the process of downloading it I went it to the help and noticed a link to download AIR, however what happened next surprised me.. the site is hardwired to the Windows installer eventhough I am clearly on a Mac.
If AIR is platform independent what exactly do they gain by pointing directly to an install file, not to mention the horror if Adobe changes the name.. I prefer to link to the download page and let the user choose or another option is to use the install badge.
More news from MAX.. Adobe has released Flash Lite 3
Here is the beginning (meat) of the press release.
ADOBE MAX 2007, CHICAGO - October 1, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Lite™ 3 software, which now supports Adobe Flash Player compatible video and enables the delivery of dynamic Web content on mobile devices. Flash Lite 3 allows mobile device manufacturers, operators and content providers to differentiate their offerings by giving users the ability to watch Flash Player compatible video, the world’s most popular video format, and browse Flash enabled Web sites when integrated with a mobile Web browser. Both NTT DoCoMo and Nokia committed to deliver Flash Lite 3 enabled devices in upcoming releases of handsets. With over 300 Million Flash enabled mobile devices and handsets shipped so far, Adobe expects more than one billion Flash enabled devices to be available by 2010.
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OK not the best title ever, but the information within the post is far more important.
Adobe has released AIR beta 2 which offers a wide selection of updates, including:
ByteArray
Clipboard, Drag and Drop
Door
File API
HTML
NativeWindow
Relative URLs
System
In other news regarding AIR I was just given approval to post information about an AIR application that I developed while working with Organi Studios which can be learned about here.
I leave this post asking a question to all potential AIR developers.
1. What features of AIR do you find the most interesting?
2. What features do you find to be the least interesting?
Again, here is the link to download AIR
Head on over to CodeApollo if you want to talk about AIR.
