Par for the course this year, Adobe MAX 2007 has some pre-event sessions, which includes a number of day-long hands-on sessions. For a while there was only one session for AIR, and that was for the Flex developer. After talking with Ted Patrick and other MAX organizers, I was able to arrange a similar session, but for the HTML and JavaScript developers!
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The second leg of the on AIR Bus Tour came to a conclusion last week in Boston, MA. Once again, we were blown away by the numbers of HTML/JavaScript developers in attendance (an average of 50% of the audience at each event). Imagine my surprise then, when I found out that there has been an astoundingly low number of HTML/JavaScript entries for the AIR Developer Derby!
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The second leg of three for the on AIR Bus Tour is drawing to a close. The crew is in Philadelphia, PA now, with Boston to go at the end of the week. During this leg of the tour I’ve been showing off some new samples, the most popular of which seems to b applying Flash bitmap filters to HTML elements in AIR. In this walkthrough, I’ll cover some of the techniques I use to blur the line between Flash and HTML.
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