AIR is great, because web developers can build desktop apps like web apps. However there are two problems. AIR isn't available for GNU/Linux and C++/Java applications are most popular at this time :]

Wasn't something like this featured in the old beta of windows... code named Loghorn? I saw some really long feature video discussion showing how "easy" it would be in the future to make a simple application for coding amateurs with some xml/xhtml application generator..

Excellent, now I have something to do during February.

Perfect timing... I just started planning a desktop application just to learn Adobe Air. The only difference is I also wanted to dabble in Flex.

The Flex part of the application would allow me to have a browser and desktop version since the Air JavaScript API doesn't exist for the browser.

Any thoughts on how you would create a browser version of this application with access to local storage... maybe even a way to tie it to the desktop version?

This is great, I have wanted to get into using AIR as a platform. Thanks!

Thats great news for me and thanks for taking time to write this article. I'll surely give AdobeAIR a shot.

It seems that 2008 will be the AIR year...

Thanks for reminding me about 24ways this year! I looked at it the past few years but didn't remember it this year.

Generally speaking, Rick Internet Application going to be more and more popular in 2008 just like when AJAX became popular on 2004 and 2005.

Air and Flex are great and they will be popular. I managed to integrate a nice Ruby on Rails data grid with flex easy and fast to produce very cool UI

Thanks,
Adi

I agree adi, i can see AIR booming in popularity over the next 12 months so it's good advice to read as much AIR stuff like "Christmas in the AIR" and get competent with it now.

Thanks for the great article Mr Snook (Thought you'd like that) and if you do write a 3 times longer article i'm all ears.