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AIR for Javascript Devel...
by Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Kevin Hoyt, and Dragos Georgita
Adobe® AIR™ for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide by Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Dragos Georgita, and Kevin Hoyt Copyright © 2008 O’Reilly Media. All rights reserved. Printed in Canada. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (http://safari.oreilly.com). For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: (800) 998-9938 or corporate@oreilly.com. Editor: Steve Weiss Copy Editor: Audrey Doyle Indexer: Joe Wizda Cover Designer: Karen Montgomery Illustrator: Robert Romano Printing History: April 2008: First Edition The O’Reilly logo is a registered trademark of O’Reilly Media, Inc. The Pocket Reference/Pocket Guide series designations, Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers, the image of a red-footed falcon and related trade dress are trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Many of the designations uses by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as
(2009)
Apollo for Adobe Flex De...
A Developer's Reference for Apollo's Alpha Release
by Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon, and Jeff Swartz
CHAPTER 1T CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Apollo Apollo is a new cross-platform desktop runtime being developed by Adobe that allows web developers to use web technologies to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications and web applications to the desktop. In order to better understand what Apollo enables, and which problems it tries to address, it is useful to first take a quick look over at the (relatively short) history of web applications. A Short History of Web Applications Over the past couple of years, there has been an accelerating trend of applications moving from the desktop to the web browser. This has been driven by a number of factors, which include: • The growth of the Internet as a communication medium • The relative ease of deployment of web applications • The ability to target multiple operating systems via the browser • The maturity of higher-level client technologies, such the
(2007)
