Why no love for AIR? From what I've read, heard and seen, it's going to be a very interesting platform to develop for and bridge the gap for a lot of web developers that would like to code for the desktop.
What I'm looking for in developing web applications for the desktop is the easiest, fastest and best supported platform that doesn't require me to monkey around too much with my existing code base. While I've only worked with AIR, after giving a cursory look at XUL here are some of the things AIR does that XUL doesn't: * Built in support for Flex/Flash (Layout/Logic + Fancy Animation/Video) * Many chrome options, in window animation, incredibly fast rendering speed for windows, support for native OS features, simple packaging scheme * Hundreds of desktop application hooks available for your Javascript * Application signing for publishers * Industry backing: Adobe, AOL, eBay, Salesforce.com, Akamai, O'Reilly, Movable Type * Documentation: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide * IDEs: Flex Builder, Aptana, Eclipse AIR Plugin - jake On 9/26/07, Christof Donat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Actually, if you'd like to use js to access a database, may I suggest > > Adobe AIR? > > Have I already expressed my dislike of AIR? > > > Basically, in allows you to embed JS/HTML into an installable application, > > Wow, how new. Have you ever looked at XUL? Just create an installer that > installs XULRunner and your XUL/XBL/HTML/JS/CSS-Application and you are done. > > I also remember to have seen simple Windows applications that only created a > window, embedded the IE Engine and load a HTML page that has been copied to > disk by the installer. > > Have you ever heared of .hta applications? They are a generic type of the > above IE applications by only providing the HTML, images, scripts, etc. in an > archive file. > > OK, the last two are not platform independant, but in many cases that is good > enough. Use XULRunner otherwise. > > So what is so revolutionary new about AIR now that we have to hear all that > fuzz? Is there anything that can not be done equally efficient with > XULRunner? > > Christof >
