Writing about web page http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR_for_Linux:Release_Notes

AIR for Linux Alpha was released today on the Adobe Labs site. It’s far from fully-functional yet but it looks like most of the important stuff is there, certainly enough for me to test my AIR applications with.

Now and again I forget to properly close the debug player from within FlexBuilder, which in most cases is fine for a Flex app because it runs inside your browser instance, but if you do this with an AIR app it sometimes leaves an orphan instance running that you have to close manually, even if you close FlexBuilder – just look for any instances of ADL.EXE in your system process/task manager and close/kill it.

Writing about web page http://www.macrumors.com/2008/03/18/adobe-bringing-flash-to-the-iphone/

The plot thickens. I really must get out more…

Adobe made comments today that they will be delivering a Flash client for the iPhone. According to Adobe’s Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen, Adobe has downloaded the iPhone SDK and is planning on building a Flash Player for the iPhone and distributing it via Apple’s iTunes App store.

Which is a bit confusing – wouldn’t an application created via the SDK have to run in standalone mode, rather than as a plugin to Mobile Safari? Also, now that Safari 3.1 is out and contains support for video tags and CSS animation/webfonts, I think it’s fairly clear that Apple has its own view on the future of rich web apps, but unless they’ve sorted out the over-zealous font-smoothing (especially on Windows) I’ll stick with ‘slow’ Firefox.

Writing about web page http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/

Microsoft is expected to shore-up its much maligned Internet Explorer Mobile browser this morning by announcing new Flash Lite support.

Made me smile anyway. And this one…

Silverlight has its own, or will observe a Flash policy file. Therefore, public services that work with Flash should also work with Silverlight.

The cheek!