Adobe Releases Cross-Operating System Runtime

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 19, 2007 @07:50AM from the playing-nice-with-everyone dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that Adobe released the first public version of their new cross-operating system runtime today nicknamed 'Apollo'. "The software relies on HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and Adobe Flex. The alpha version, which presently works on Windows and Macintosh, can be downloaded for free at http://www.adobe.com/go/apollo. Once the Apollo apps are created, users can launch them from their desktops, without using their browser or connecting online. An Apollo application can connect automatically to online data or services when an Internet connection is detected, with new components automatically downloaded and integrated. The user needs the Apollo runtime to run the apps, just as a Flash player is needed to run Flash animations."

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Re:Translation... by joto · 2007-03-20 06:07 · Score: 0, Troll

Uhm, java applets and even java as a cross-platform GUI platform died almost a decade ago, precisely because the performance was so rotten. On the other hand, for some reason, java became the platform of choice for applications where even BASIC would remain portable: middleware.