Comments on: Adobe Apollo Alpha Release

By: randy

randy — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:26:23 +0000

thanks for the information

By: Jester

Jester — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:46:05 +0000

Some more html/javascript docs would be nice aswell, its all a bit to geared toward flex at the mo, and i dont have time to learn a new language !!!!

By: Jack Slocum

Jack Slocum — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:29:38 +0000

Very interesting to see Ext running in a desktop app. I wish I knew how it all worked!

By: Delixe

Delixe — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:48:43 +0000

For anyone interested and concerned with Apollo development a new forum has been launched just for the community, take a look and join in on this new technology–be one of the first to soak it up:

http://www.codeapollo.com

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:17:28 +0000

Gosh, the Apollo-FAQ gives me the creeps. Leverage this, laverage that, what is wrong with the verb “use”? Is it considered uncool in marketing-speek?

/me is away, leveraging the microwave to heat up a snack.

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:58:03 +0000

Just use flex. IMO, Adobe should be spending $$ on maturing Flex instead of creating more hybrid platforms.

By: mike chambers

mike chambers — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:21:59 +0000

>P.S.. i dont see alot of ajax in it atm to be honest, its more geard for flex and actonscript/flas

Yeah. The next pre-release build (beta), which have much stronger HTML support and docs.

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

By: Rostislav Siryk

Rostislav Siryk — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:36:23 +0000

Don’t miss the Adobe Apollo’s Videos at the http://video.onflex.org/ — there’s some interesting demos already and more to come!

By: Jester

Jester — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:23:05 +0000

Also, been looking for ways to stream media (as this would be about the best use for theis type of app – With all the `On Demand` hype about at the mo and cant find a suitable way of doing this, maybe they will include this in a later release) .. appologies if it is included and i simply havent found it yet !!..

Medias Tried:
Flash video
Youtube object
Mp3

By: Jester

Jester — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:05:50 +0000

made a couple of apps, found it hard at first to use, after a good read of the docs was much easier, i think its okay for an alpha release, i played about with the XMLHttpRequest a bit loading some php data from the server, i would like to see clickable links inside the application to load if its detected as online..

The online / offline detection is quite nice, very sharp and to the point and easy to manipulate as its 2 functions or so ..

Will be interesting to see where they go from here, i will certainly be continuing to tinker and play about with it.

/Jester

P.S.. i dont see alot of ajax in it atm to be honest, its more geard for flex and actonscript/flash .. i hope this changes as not everyone codes flash and it would make the web a boring place to code in if everyone did !

Well done Adobe for the concept but im sure we will see very very open source easier apps like ths in the not to distant future, either way nice app for an early release !

By: AndrÃ¡s BÃ¡rthÃ¡zi

AndrÃ¡s BÃ¡rthÃ¡zi — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:08:59 +0000

Shaun, it’s “AJAX”. ;)

By: leslie

leslie — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:29:20 +0000

Now that Apollo beta is out, I ported my XULRunner-based apps to run on AIR:

http://jinsync.com/

“That Gmail.app” and “jin’sync 30b” — yours for the downloading, and cross-platform to boot.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:23:04 +0000

ok tried it… made a couple of apps.. here’s my opinion..

andras has somewhat of a point there. this really is, nothing fanstically new. Flash projector attempted to bring web technologies onto the desktop.. but of course, u have to have a good knowledge of actionscript and probably, a creative eye.
in apollo, u have the runtime layer, and the html/flex application built on top. everything runs within that window… like a normal browser. sure, it’s called a desktop application, but really, it just takes the place of a browser.
along with wat andras said, i would like to see more integration into the desktop environment, similar to what google desktop has. taskbar icons, system popups.. something more natural to the OS.

by the way what is the answer to the spam question- What four letter word starting with ‘A’ is the topic of this blog??
there isn’t a four letter word in this topic!!

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:15:54 +0000

a new world is dawning!!
let’s see wot this puppy can do!

By: Giovambattista Fazioli

Giovambattista Fazioli — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:15:26 +0000

Wondy!! I am installing now!!!

By: AndrÃ¡s BÃ¡rthÃ¡zi

AndrÃ¡s BÃ¡rthÃ¡zi — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:32:40 +0000

Well, it’s not really that thing I was waiting for. As I see, the XML description language gone, and it’s quite different from the earlier releases. Anyway, it’s interesting that the YUI-Ext is working on this platform, and may other interesting ideas are behind. Let’s discover it.

What I’m really interested in, if I can create messages like “new email” arrived in Outlook/Thunderbird, if I can add icons to the taskbar, etc.

Programming in Flash what I’m not really interested in. It needs a quite different setup that I have now for web development, the tools are not free and are just a few of them, they’re not really platform independent, too. As I see, more or less running Flash applications natively was possible earlier, too, it’s nothing really new. The interesting thing would be writing desktop programs with HTML or other ML, JavaScript, without compiling. If it will be possible, and won’t be hard, I’ll be interested in this environment.