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Mike Downey is talking about Apollo for Developers.

Apollo is a technology by Adobe that allows you to bring web applications to the desktop.
Web applications, as in HTML-pages, .NET webapps, but also Flex applications, using embedded Flash or not, or just 100% Flash apps that run entirely out of the browser and can access your local file system!

100% cross-platform, no more browser compatibility issues, no more hard work to make your app work on different OS’es.
As long as it can be shown in a browser, you can port it to the desktop in a snap using Apollo.

Currently, Apollo is available as an Aplha 1 release on Adobe Labs.

To render your app Apollo uses the WebKit browser rendering engine, so really that’s all you should check if you’re building your webapp. If it renders nicely in WebKit, you’re free from browser hassle!

A totally cool demo showing what you can do with Apollo is the Apollo Book.
You’re seeing live webpages HTML rendered in Flash, running in Apollo on your desktop.
100% interactive!
Did I hear you say WOW?

So, how do you start building your own Apollo apps?
Check out my other post: http://www.svendens.com/adobe-air/build-compile-as3-flex2-apollo-eclipse/

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