Hi again! In this post I announce you that Adobe AIR 1.0 is open for download. It almost appears that this announcement surprised the AIR development community. Very few applications are available at the moment on the Adobe site and of those most (maybe all) are only compatible with the last beta version.

The Adobe ® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems. What type of developer are you?

The new Adobe AIR runtime enables Ajax developers to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy on the desktop. AIR applications run across operating systems on the WebKit HTML engine and are easily delivered using a single installer file. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use their existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web.

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1. iahimr on February 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

   So you need something like a “virtual machine” just like JavaVM or .NET?
   If I’m right, then this Adobe AIR sucks too imho :)
2. admin on February 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

   Yes, to run AIR applications you need to have installed Adobe AIR. But the difference is that AIR is much smaller and less resources consumer.
   It’s cool you should try it!