Adobe to deliver AIR for Linux (eWeek) [LWN.net]

Adobe to deliver AIR for Linux (eWeek)

Posted Feb 29, 2008 13:00 UTC (Fri) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)
In reply to: Adobe to deliver AIR for Linux (eWeek) by drag
Parent article: Adobe to deliver AIR for Linux (eWeek)

Yes, when XULRunner is complete this will be an interesting platform for hybrid web/desktop
apps. Songbird and Miro two example apps using that framework.

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Adobe to deliver AIR for Linux (eWeek)

Posted Feb 29, 2008 21:22 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Well XULRunner isn't strictly nessicary, I don't think. XUL is included with Firefox since
it's based on it. I think you can Firefox as the basis for running your own application, but I
am not sure since I have never realy done any XUL development or looked too closely at it.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/The_Joy_of_XUL
http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/whyxul.html

Personally I'd rather have people building rich client applications over the internet based on
XUL rather then AIR, but that's just me. XUL is open source, and is trying to create a open
standard.

Another competiting technology would be Microsoft's XAML based on WPF and is used in their
Silverlight thingie.