JD on EP

Paul Robertson has great links and highlights of the internal SQLite database, and its abilities. There's also background on how Google Gears and the AIR database are functionally similar and can be used in similar ways, even though they were distinct efforts from birth.

Justin Everett-Church has key background info on Player, including the fullscreen/emulation conflict.

Paul Colton has released Aptana for AIR, an IDE for beyond-the-browser Ajax. [via Dion Almaer]

Tinic Uro describes the multi-res bitmaps available in the new Player... we prerender a texture file at different resolutions to reduce artifacts while scaling at runtime. (The "mip" is "multum in parvo", or "many in few", which always reminds me of the increasing milk trick.)

Matt Chotin has a quickie AIR app to automate the uploading of photos to the Labs wiki.

Alex Zaharov-Reutt has original reporting at itwire.com.au. This is top-level material, available in other articles, but the phrasing offers a new perspective. (Errata: Microsoft Silverlight and Google Gears are browser plugins, not cross-OS desktop apps.) Security is definitely an issue; these are real applications, which can read your local drive, so you'd only install from people you trust... use a sandbox'd web browser for sites and apps you may not necessarily trust.

Arul Prasad had a post last night about how Apollo's cookie permissions, when rendering an existing website, are controlled by the overall system security levels, found in the "Security Settings"/"Internet Options" panel. (I haven't confirmed this yet myself, but it seems reasonable, and Arul's account is straightforward.)