Adobe AIR
 

Has anyone messed with Adobe AIR or even Adobe Flex? I looks like it has some promise to it! I know that Pownce is using Adobe AIR technology.

Check out the video: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

Re: Adobe AIR
 

Video looked impressive. But having web applications reading writing to my hdd is just a bit too scary.

Re: Adobe AIR
 

Haven't messed with it, but I think I saw a demo a month or so back. Looked pretty cool, except the demo I saw was pretty obviously trumped up.

Well, that and it competes with Silverlight, so I'm quite biased... :P

Re: Adobe AIR
 

Flash is actually competing with Silverlight, AIR platform lets you take your web applications to the desktop which is developed in either Flash, Flex, or just regular HTML and AJAX.

I'm guessing you worked with Silverlight. Do you like it? Would you prefer it over Flash?

Re: Adobe AIR
 

Silverlight also allows for your web apps to run on the desktop; it's basically a subset of WPF (Windows Presentation Framework) adapted to the web. So, technically, it's taking your desktop apps to the web.

Unfortunately, I've not used it very much at all. I'm not really interested in graphics related work, so the appeal isn't so high. That said, I would assume that Flash currently as better tooling, seeing as to how it's been around for a decade and Silverlight for, what, 6 months? As for functionality, again, Flash has had a longer time to develop, but once Silverlight 2.0 comes out, I think it'll be interesting to see if people prefer Flash/ActionScript or Silverlight/.NET.