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Motivation for supporting HTML/AJAX in Apollo

The Apollo team gave us some reasons on why they chose to support HTML and AJAX in Apollo.
I thought the only reason was because it's cool, instead they said they made it for :

reusing of existing web applications and services (sites, maps, etc..)
leveraging AJAX developers knowledge
supporting dynamic CSS box model layout
major use cases
constructing complex HTML user interfaces

You made a great work !

Posted by marco casario on October 26, 2006 at 11:11 PM in Apollo | Permalink

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Marco - I think Adobe's whole strategy with Apollo is making it possible for people to use Web development skills (from Flash and JavaScript to CSS and HTML) on the desktop.

That is a way for them to boost their (potential) developer numbers by millions, as well as allowing Adobe product based designers to become involved in application development.

I've also noticed a few people are developing software on the Mac by throwing up a WebKit window and then developing the rest in HTML/CSS/JavaScript, which is an interesting trend.

Posted by: JulesLt | October 27, 2006 at 10:28 AM

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