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July 15, 2007
Read the JS book
Read the JS book: I'm worried that Flash/Flex developers are at risk of misunderstanding how Adobe Integrated Runtime will be received. That's why I'd really recommend checking into this O'Reilly book from Mike Chambers, Danny Dura and Kevin Hoyt. It reveals how JavaScript and HTML people are coming to see and understand AIR -- how they will approach it and use it. Ryan Stewart has been describing how the AIR Bus audience is split pretty evenly between SWF and Ajax developers. Flash developers may understand AIR as a better Projector, but regular web developers are seeing it as "web pages with extra permissions": the ability to work with the local file system, to operate and customize multiple windows, the ability to use native menuing systems, permission to exchange data with other applications, the ability to create an interface not surrounded by different brands and configurations of proprietary browser chrome. It's only a slight shift in stance, but if you look at things only from a Player-oriented perspective, then you may miss seeing the effects of all the other people already working with the new runtime. The book is 150 pages printed, and as a free downloadable PDF is quick to skim, easy to reference. You may not learn any new facts from it, but I think the perspective is extremely valuable -- to see how AIR will look to the entire web development community, and to better predict how it will be commercially adopted.
Posted by JohnDowdell at July 15, 2007 02:37 PM
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