AIR blurs the line between the Net and desktop

David Johnson June 13th, 2007

Most of the Apple WWDC coverage seems to be pegged on the iPhone, but the sleeper tech story of the week is the release of Adobe’s Integrated Runtime (AIR), which has been working under the moniker Apollo. A lot of shogun developers like it, including Jesse James Garrett, who says that the integrated HMTL/Javascript support with Flash will help blur the line between desktop and online apps in a very good way, increasing creativity and flexibility and speeding up development time. Generally, such heavy development talk is a little deeper in the hardcore than the LR faithful want, but when the father of AJAX speaks in praise, we should all take note.