I just caught this article over on Wired Blogs about Jesse James Garrett‘s reaction to AIR. Jesse James Garrett coined the term Ajax so it makes sense that he would be happy with AIR, but he has a couple of good quotes about what it means for developers and how it extends the reach of Ajax – all things we want it to do:
“I think that Ajax developers have kind of been running up against the constraint of the browser for a while now,” says Garrett. “There’s a lot of code from your browser application that you’d have to throw out for the offline portion of your app.”
That’s really the great thing about AIR. Not every application you build will need to be outside the browser. But as applications become more sophisticated and you do run up against the browser, you don’t need to reengineer your application. Most of the code will port directly to AIR and all you need to do is extend it using the JavaScript APIs available in AIR (or ActionScript if you’re using Flex). As the desktop and the browser blur, that’s going to be very helpful and it will make it easy for web developers to explore closer integration with the desktop.
[tags]Jesse James Garrett, Ajax, AIR[/tags]
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