A flurry of new AIR 1.5 Applications…

by James on 21st November, 2008 in Air

With the release of AIR 1.5 there’s been a flurry of new updates on the Adobe Developer Center. At the moment it looks like only the AJAX ones are updated (rather than the Flex or Flash samples) and are making the most of the new Flash 10 features, but boy are they impressive.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/ajax/samples.html – be sure to check out BlackBookSafe and its Pixel Bender effects!

I’ve been pondering for a while just how much of the Flash Player 10 features can be used on windows in AIR – its exciting to see Pixel Bender effects be used so smoothly on an AIR window. And it’s even better that the source is available when you want it. Now, if I can only get started with Pixel Bender…

AIR 1.5, Pixel Bender

About James

James is a Senior New Media Developer at MMT Digital, and has BA(Hons) in Design for Interactive Media from the University of Gloucestershire. He loves designing and producing all sorts of website and Flash-related things, as well as prattling on about technologies.Day-to-day he works with Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and in his spare time he mucks about in Flex and Wordpress.Follow James on Twitter.

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