- Explains what the Adobe Integrated Runtime is
- Explains how to install/uninstall everything you need
- Covers the library of additional code supported in addition to normal JavaScript
- Stone Age JavaScript in examples
- Examples use some proprietary HTML
- Extremely dated coding techniques
- First Edition: Published April 2008
- 185 page pocket paperback
- Published by O'Reilly Books
- ISBN 0-596-51837-0
- A Getting Started Pocket Book
- Authors Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Dragos Georgita and Kevin Hoyt
If I didn't know what HTML and JavaScript that the webkit engine support then this book would have convinced me that it only supports the sort of HTML and JavaScript that we used to use way back in the 20th century before semantic HTML written according to the standards and unobtrusive JavaScript were possible. While this book provides excellent instructions on how to set up Adobe AIR and goes through all of the specific commands that allow you to interface with AIR from JavaScript (which is what you would expect given that the book is written by some of the developers of the product), the HTML and JavaScript that they use in their example code gives the impression that the version of AIR that they are describing was released over 10 years ago rather than in the last few months. Hopefully the authors will update their HTML and JavaScript skills to bring themselves into the 21st century soon and will then release a second edition that doesn't give the impression that the book is over 10 years old.
