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Why AIR - the desktop runtime? Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX are the right competing technologies.

• 10ren 17y ago
  The category is Rich Internet Applications. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX I'm not just being pedantic, it's that HTML5 is for the browser (not the desktop) and not particularly connected to the server-side (IIUC). However, HTML5 is competing with Flash, and the browser-based client-side aspect of the others. But I don't claim to be an expert on HTML5, and checking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html5#New_APIs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html5#New_APIs it has "Offline storage database", which is one of the key points for RIA. That's my reasoning. Now your turn: why do you think Flash is the right competing technology?
  • mikeryan 17y ago
    HTML5, Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX are all technologies for building apps that run (primarily) in a browser. AIR isn't one of these, its a wrapper for deploying applications based on Flash or HTML/Javascript as desktop apps.
    • 10ren 17y ago
      I thought the main point was that they run as internet-enabled desktop apps. I guess it's debatable how central that is.