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Just noticed the posting over at Mike Chambers blog. Adobe has released a new (and I hope final) version of the AIR logo.

I actually like the concept behind it and it really sits nicely on the desktop. Now all they need is some stickers for my MacBook Pro to show AIR love.

Lee Brimlow has developed a fully interactive 3D browser using Adobe AIR and Papervision3D. The app surprisingly runs very smooth on my Mac and overall is very cool.

I hope to get some free time soon to work with PV3D but for now I just look at the cool apps being built with it.

Earlier today I stumbled upon a post by Mike Chambers talking about Mozilla Prism and the fact Mozilla is referring to AIR as different and proprietary. Being an AIR developer myself I have to take offense to Mozilla, they are completely false by saying:

Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we’re not building a proprietary platform to replace the web.

It is very odd for Mozilla to strike Adobe down and say they are not building a cross-platform tool or even worse put them in the same box as Microsoft Silverlight. Not to mention how much Adobe has done for the open source community, Tamarin comes to mind.

I guess we will have to see how much pull Prism will have and maybe they will smarten up and not state false accusations of a tool that is doing exactly what Prism will.

Back to Mikes post though as insightful as it really is, the comments sort of prove that Adobe has left a lot of people confused with what Adobe AIR in fact is and how it is a very awesome technology.

Note: Adobe AIR is still in beta though, so I wouldn’t expect a huge media blitz just yet, but certainly when 1.0 is upon us these misconceptions will be cleared up.

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.

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.