{"id":24,"date":"2008-02-25T01:51:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T07:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/post.aspx?id=539a49ca-1762-4a7f-b812-e21e99a58731"},"modified":"2008-02-25T01:51:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T07:51:11","slug":"adobe-announces-air-flex-3-open-source-and-the-kitchen-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/24","title":{"rendered":"Adobe announces, AIR, Flex 3, Open Source, and the kitchen sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe made a handful of announcements early this morning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.adobe.com\/wiki\/display\/site\/Home\" target=\"_blank\">A new Open Source portal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flex\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flex 3 is ready and final<\/a>. Flex Builder 3, which you&#8217;ll want if you are serious about building Flex applications, is US$249.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/air\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe AIR is released<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Flex team&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macromedia.com\/flexteam\/archives\/2008\/02\/its_on_-_flex_3.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a> has more details and a lot of links to get you started.<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or are none of the demo applications very compelling? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/air\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"172\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/image.axd?picture=WindowsLiveWriter\/AdobeannouncesAIRFlex3OpenSourceandtheki_6E67\/image_5.png\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The biggest change from &quot;yesterday&quot; is that it might be easier today to write a cross-platform application &#8212; as long as AIR\/Flex supports what you want to do outside of the browser. I&#8217;d like Adobe to offer the &quot;Express&quot; edition of Flex Builder so I can build things for free, just like Microsoft does with Visual Studio. <\/p>\n<p>Are you excited about this &quot;AIR&quot;? (Or Flex?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe made a handful of announcements early this morning: A new Open Source portal Flex 3 is ready and final. Flex Builder 3, which you&#8217;ll want if you are serious about building Flex applications, is US$249. Adobe AIR is released The Flex team&#8217;s blog announcement has more details and a lot of links to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":301,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/301","url_meta":{"origin":24,"position":0},"title":"Adobe PDF files, not printable anymore?","date":"June 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Just announced .... Acrobat 9 includes support for embedded Flash (SWF) content. 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