Comments on: Adobe Apollo – Someone smart please try it out!

By: aaron

aaron — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:23:44 +0000

Sorry for the late response Darrel… Apollo allows you to build standalone desktop apps. The reason the web development crowd is excited is that it uses familiar technologies.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:26:44 +0000

“Apollo is a platform agnostic runtime that allows developers to build web apps for the desktop.”

So, a web app that interacts with the local file system, or just a web based app that you view through a desktop application?

By: aaron

aaron — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:23:05 +0000

Apollo is a platform agnostic runtime that allows developers to build web apps for the desktop. It’s huge. I’m chewing threw the bit to get at it.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:25:53 +0000

Jake:

THANKS for that clarification! You are absolutely correct.

I was thinking of Spry, which is Adobe’s AJAX library:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/

Indeed, Apollo is just as you describe (especially the ‘confusing’ part) ;0)

It seems to be a way to build a custom thin client. I’m not sure what the advantage of that is, but interesting. Is it a last ditch effort to make Flash more relevant in the face of AJAX?

By: Jake Freeberg

Jake Freeberg — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:19:39 +0000

No… From my understanding it has nothing to do with AJAX and everything to do with running rich internet applications outside of web browsers that are Flash/Apollo powered and have web browsers inside of them, sort of… It’s a funky new confusing technology. If anyone is familiar with a SWF wrapping software called Zinc, it does some of the things that does, but differently.

When I have time to play with it I’ll get back on here with some real first impressions.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:35:45 +0000

my (limited) understanding of this is that it’s just yet-another-AJAX-library aking to Yahoo’s or scriptaculous or jquery or atlas or…

I imagine the benefits to this one if you want to integrate flash more fully (though, if you are using AJAX, my guess is that you aren’t relying on Flash as much).

So, it’s probably good to have another AJAX option, though it seems to become increasingly complex to figure out which one to use in a partiucular situation.