First of all today I officially started the new category on my blog dedicated to Apollo.
This new technology promises to be the the coolest release of 2007 for Flash developers.
Outside there a lot of rumors about Adobe Apollo :
Flash to jump beyond the browser
Adobe Apollo FAQ : Technical Overview and 21 Questions
Adobe's Apollo - The Next Step in Rich Internet Applications
Adobe Apollo on google
Today Renaun Erickson made a great summary from the last Adobe's presentation "Building Killer Desktop RIAs: Adobes Next Generation Technology" which was about Apollo.
Read his Apollo Presentation Notes post
Apollo will allow developers to leverage web development skill sets like Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax, CSS, Javascript, and PDF to create desktop applications.
Supported OS Windows OS, Mac OS, and (Linux OS in the future).
Some of the quick notes about Apollo. It will be free like the Flash Player. It is not a specific bytecode code base but a SWF and HTML engine that provides a rich API for desktop features. This means you will not have to compile your SWF to a specific exe but build regular SWF’s and HTML. There will be a sit comparable packager to link assets.
They plan to provide Apollo on labs by the end of the year, and make the release Apollo 1.0 by first half of 2007.
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