The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
Some of the features included in the Adobe AIR Beta include, but are not limited to:
* Mac support (OS X 10.4.8 and above (Intel and PPC)
* Windows support (Windows XP and Windows Vista Home Premium Edition)
* File I/O API
* SQLite embedded database
* All functionality within Flash Player 9, including complete network stack
* Windowing APIs
* Command-line tools (ADL and ADT)
* HTML within Flash content
* Top-level HTML applications
* ActionScript / JavaScript Script bridging
* Flex Builder and Flex Framework support for authoring AIR application
* Application command-line arguments
* Drag and Drop Support
* Rich Clipboard Access
* Native Menu API (Mac only in beta)
* Service Connectivity API
* File Type Association
* Application icons
* PDF Support
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