Adobe is gearing up to release its much-anticipated development tool Apollo on Monday, for FREE!

Apollo is “a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop.” Well put, Adobe. Apollo is an attempt to unify multiple web development tools under one platform (Apollo) that will run on Windows, OS X, and eventually Linux, once Apollo 1.0 has been up and running for a while.

This, if executed successfully, could begin a new chapter in web development and the nature of run-time environments.

One of the aims of Apollo is to bridge the gap between online and offline web applications, allowing users to operate the program using offline content just as a full application would.

Apollo will integrate and interact with coding languages HTML, Flash, and Javascript, as well as web applications Flash, Ajax, OpenLaszio, and Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere.

It has also been observed that Adobe’s CS3 will enhance the functionality of Apollo, as Dreamweaver and Illustrator have been built to offer more integration with Apollo.

Just as Apollo will be a venue through which web content can be built, Apollo applications can also be developed with the different variations of programming code, such as HTML and Javascript.

The Adobe Apollo tool is built on the WebKit HTML / Javascript engine, and Adobe designers said they chose this platform so Apollo will function as an open-development project, based on tried and tested technology that can run on both stationary and portable devices.

Apollo looks like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for the next page in web development, as long as it lives up to expectations; knowing Adobe, we have no doubt that it will. 

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Entry was posted on Sunday, March 18th, 2007 at 10:31 pm under Open source, Technology.

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