February 2008
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Adobe AIR 1.0 released
Adobe has taken their AIR product out of beta. AIR is a cross-platform runtime to deploy Rich Internet Applications to the desktop. AIR apps can be created in Flash, Flex, or HTML/Javascript/AJAX.
I like the idea, but right now I don’t really see the benefit of AIR. It’s another runtime to download and install before being able to use an application, that just adds one more step....
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Fluid: bringing the web to your desktop
Fluid is new app by Todd Ditchendorf to create stand-alone web apps that act like desktop apps, which are being called Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) by the creator. You can add your own icon, and it will run in it’s own process, so a crash from another web page won’t kick you out of your Basecamp or Google Docs session.
I’ve been using it for about a week since I heard about it...