Adobe has released the third major version of Adobe`s RIA enviroment AIR. Adobe AIR 1.5 is based on the open-source browser engine WebKit which is the foundation of the Safari Browser (mostly used on Mac`s).
Adobe AIR 1.5 is available for Windows, Mac OS X and also for Linux (32 and 64-bit). Downloads for all OS can be found at http://get.adobe.com/air/. SDK`s and extensions for Dreamweaver and Flash can be found at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html
Most important changes:
- Flash Player 10 integration, including
- 3D Effects and APIs
- Custom Filters and Effects (Pixel Bender)
- New Text engine (with support for right to left, and vertical text layout)
- Drawing API enhancements
- Updated Saffron engine for font rendering
- Vector data type (typed Arrays)
- Enhanced Sound APIs
- Dynamic video streaming
- and much more
- Integration of the SquirrelFish JavaScript VM into the Webkit HTML engine (should provide significant improvements to JavaScript execution)
- Support for new languages
- Swedish
- Dutch
- Czech
- Polish
- Turkish
- Encrypted Local / SQLite databases
- Lots of bugs fixes and stability improvements, including the uber-annoying
- AIR applications do not use the default browser to launch URLs on Vista
- AIR applications open a new instance of Firefox to handle urls (as opposed to opening a new tab)
More info about AIR can be found at http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
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