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 !

Comments

[JulesLt]

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.