02.26.08
Adobe AIR to put websites into desktop widgets
From yahoo news / AP
that have created downloadable, desktop versions of their Web sites using software developed by Adobe Systems Inc.
Adobe is launching the application, called AIR, on Monday. Adobe says AIR will allow any company with a Web site to inhabit a permanent spot on people’s desktops.
It also reduces the wait time for downloading images and data, because the desktop is constantly updated while the computer is online.
Adobe says AIR runs on any operating system.
Look for Ebay to be one the first to show up on your desktop in a widget using Adobe AIR. I think this is a cool idea, I do
wonder what the effects will be on my system performance when I get a half dozen direct connect widgets running for various web sites. I would like to see a multiple rss feed style widget like this however. I am not familiar with the capabilities of the AIR widget system from adobe, I wonder if it will be able to run flash web sites and music and such.
Would be very cool to have something like this that could be a widget for mobile devices allowing current flash video and flash sites to play with.