Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
Tag: air
Two events this past week could help to expand the deployment of microformats. Microformats are a clever way of getting from the Web we know today to a more meaningful "semantic" Web, without breaking what works now. By adding simple extensions to existing tags, you can use HTML to communicate not only the presentation of … Continue reading Microformats: A New Hope
Adobe Systems yesterday hosted "Engage 2008", an event somewhere between a press presentation and a customer feedback session. As I posted yesterday, AIR and Flex 3 were officially launched the same day. Adobe also unveiled opensource.adobe.com, a Web portal for the company's open source activities both as a producer (Flex SDK, Tamarin, BlazeDS) and an … Continue reading Adobe Engage 2008 and Why AIR
About an hour ago (at 12:01 ET), Adobe Systems officially launched version 1.0 of its AIR platform, along with Flex version 3. AIR introduces a new method for developing cross-platform software applications that blend the characteristics of browser-based Web applications and OS-native desktop software. The AIR runtime environment and the AIR software development kit are … Continue reading Adobe Launches AIR and Flex 3
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