[From Google Reader] Adobe Apollo - On A Collision Course With Web Browsers

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Adobe Apollo - On A Collision Course With Web Browsers Alex Iskold is reporting live from ETech 2007 The Apollo team from Adobe is here at ETech, presenting the Alpha version of their new runtime environment - which is aimed at empowering web developers to create desktop applications. Apollo is a lightweight virtual machine that runs on the desktop and acts as an interpreter of HTML, JavaScript and Flash - much like the browser does today. The difference is that applications that run on Apollo can work in an offline mode, while you are not connected to the internet. The browser can't yet do this, however Firefox 3 is slated to have offline functionality and IE surely won't be far behind. Adobe motivation Adobe has rolled out this solution for a few reasons. Firstly, so that users can access web applic... Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/104844683/adobe_apollo_collision_course_browsers.php If you no longer wish to receive message like this, please contact the sender. Try Google Reader today: http://www.google.com/reader/