First thing first, I don’t think that Adobe AIR will totally replace the usage of the browser, but I do believe that as the next couple years past, more and more websites, web applications, and web widgets will be built as browser and AIR based or just AIR based.
That said, for all of you developers who have not yet dabbled in the art of Adobe AIR, I highly suggest you do soon, as it will become a standard skill in the not-to-far future. I had some time last weekend to download the runtime environment and the flash and dreamweaver extensions and now am working on my own AIR app.
I gotta tell you that I’m quite impressed…not only does it allow you to create the same high-level applications, but now your web-applications can be deployed to any desktop so you are sure everyone will use, view, and experience your application the way you had envisioned. No more worrying if the user has the latest plug-ins or if their browser is up to date.
With all that power and control in your fingertips, why would you ever again want to develop rich internet application without AIR? Browsers will still hold their position as a place to serve data and other general information, but for the really cool stuff, I don’t see a way in which the browsers can keep AIR out of the market, or even inhibit its progress.
If you want to learn more about Adobe AIR, please go to the official AIR site at www.adobe.com
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I do not think that AIR is going to take off too far. Nobody wants to leave their browser. In a browser, you can have any kind of page open in any number of tabs, whether it’s html, dynamic, flash, anything… An application that can be deployed in AIR can also be deployed in flash, so why would anyone want to go through the trouble (yes, in computer-land, opening another application is “trouble”) of opening getting and opening AIR when they wanted to use a service that they could use in the browser? Look at websites like Mint.com. A complete financial manager built right into the browser. The only thing that would be to gain from having it in AIR, is if you for some reason just enjoy having it stand alone and look like it’s own app. The consistency point it moot because a flash application will look the same cross-platform anyway. So why have to download something when you could use it in a browser from ANY computer?
If you look into AIR further, you would notice that AIR has many other features like Drag and Drop that native flash doesn’t as well as having support for local databases and access to your local directories…What site has that capabilities? All I am saying is that since I started developing in AIR, I have noticed the wide range of possibilities from a development standpoint as well as from a GUI standpoint that far outweighs the “trouble” of installing the app because with AIR you can build and deploy anything you want without any strings and have it look exactly how you envisioned.
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