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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Adobe AIR revisited

Way back in September, I wrote Adobe airs a new way of using the web offline, based on a couple of days of sessions with senior Adobe staff in California.

Adobe techie Kevin Lynch said lots of interesting stuff, and Matt Nicholson, who was also on the trip, recently put up what looks like a 5,000 word transcript, Coming up for AIR. This include's Lynch's view of how AIR releates to Google Gears and Microsoft Silverlight.

I haven't tried to track down everything that came out of the trip, but it's well worth reading Tim Anderson's piece, Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. Simon Bisson's take is at Flash, aah ooh!

There was one minor interruption when a train parked on the street outside Adobe's San Francisco office, ignoring the sign that says No Parking Any Time. Unfortunately it moved before I could get San Francisco's finest to come and tow it away...

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