Thursday, December 18, 2008

Adobe publishes the final version of AIR for Linux

Adobe today announced the availability of the final version of Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux. The environment for rich Internet applications Adobe Integrated Runtime fate and a beta phase which began in September. Like the Native Client Google recently unveiled software that allows for recall to run certain Web applications outside and independent of a browser window in a dedicated, based on technologies Flash, Flex and its own renderers HTML and JavaScript (based on WebKit).

Compared to previous versions, this new version brings in particular the support of Flash technology 10 and therefore 3D effects, improved rendering of text in addition to support for digital locks (DRM), a boon for a Linux user! This feature is especially required to run Adobe Media Player, a multimedia player based on AIR.

The output of this new version also has the advantage to level the features available to different platforms in line versions Windows and Mac OS X. Simply by Flash 9, previous versions of the Linux environment prevented some applications yet functional Windows and Mac OS X operating. So many applications were deliberately truncated to operate on the three platforms.

Adobe AIR 1.5 is distributed by Adobe as binary distributions for Ubuntu 7.10 and later, Fedora 8.1 and later and Open SUSE 10.3 and later. The download is from the official site for downloading its editor. Next target for Adobe, the port AIR technology on mobile devices, including iPhone?

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