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Adobe Air. HTML/CSS/JS in a native executible with access to native methods? It sounded like a dream. ANd yeah, you can do Adobe Air without Flash. You could bu
by antjanus 9y ago
Adobe Air. HTML/CSS/JS in a native executible with access to native methods? It sounded like a dream. ANd yeah, you can do Adobe Air without Flash. You could build desktop apps and phone apps with the same tools on top of it. I really liked the desktop stuff.
I made a couple of apps and used a ton of Adobe Air apps (non-Flash) back in the day. Thought it was the future.
It failed, for some reason.
^^^^ this is the reason why the rise of Electron wasn't surprising to me. In fact, I was surprised by people being surprised. I realize that Electron is WAY more sophisticated but "desktop web apps" have been around for a while.
- shove 9y agoit was soooooo slow though. But yeah, the comparison to Electron et al is spot on.
- antjanus 9y agonot for smaller apps. I mean, can't imagine running VS Code on it.
- ashleyn 9y agoMicrosoft flirted with it as far back as Windows 95, in the form of the HTA (HTML Application).
- _wmd 9y agoHTA were awesome, I wrote a very rich UI Innosetup-alike entirely in it back in the late 90s. Everything was there, it exposed pretty much any system interface via COM, and everything pristinely documented in Microsoft style
- j_s 9y agoPerhaps V8 + baseline hardware performance pushed Electron over the threshold to usable.
- abritinthebay 9y agoIt was slow as hell, that was the main issue. It’s still around however.