{"id":1562,"date":"2007-08-21T02:53:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T07:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2007-08-21T02:53:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T07:53:05","slug":"adobe-labs-apollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1562","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Labs &#8211; Apollo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has developed <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/apollo\/\">Adobe Integrated Runtime<\/a> (or AIR) as a web applications development platform. AIR was previously called Apollo and reminds me Konfabulator and OS X Dashboard applications. With it you can adapt web applications into desktop applications. AIR lets you take an application written in HTML, Flash, AJAX, and JavaScript and create a runtime desktop application. <\/p>\n<p>So, why do the Dashboard widgets only run when you turn the Dashboard on? Why not let them run like other applications? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=627\">Konfabulator<\/a> did. And &#8230; regarding Konfabulator, they seem to have been bought out by Yahoo are now supporting <a href=\"http:\/\/widgets.yahoo.com\/info\/\">Yahoo! Widgets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a name for these small, easy-to-program, networked applications? Niall Kennedy and others call these tiny tools &#8220;at-a-glance&#8221; applications. Kennedy has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/05\/23\/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed\/\">Engadget story<\/a> that talks about Dashboard and its history.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking this would be a good way to teach interface design to students comfortable with web design. I also think we could do some neat stuff with web services like those from <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.tapor.ca\">TAPoR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has developed Adobe Integrated Runtime (or AIR) as a web applications development platform. AIR was previously called Apollo and reminds me Konfabulator and OS X Dashboard applications. With it you can adapt web applications into desktop applications. AIR lets you take an application written in HTML, Flash, AJAX, and JavaScript and create a runtime &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adobe Labs &#8211; Apollo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playful-or-cool","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}