Kevin Hoyt

As I was hanging out in Madrid, getting acclimated for the AIR Europe Tour, I started thinking about what I was going to present - specifically around script bridging. In the United States, I just talked about how Flash and HTML are separate, but can be integrated. I though it would be good to actually show how separate they are in the browser, and contrast that with how integrated they are in Adobe AIR. Several hours spent exploring ideas, and a new demonstration was born.
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Among my favorite features of Adobe AIR is the ability to directly invoke ActionScript 3 classes from JavaScript. The out-of-the-box examples of this are the network detection classes which for JavaScript developers comes in the form of a Flash SWF file. I recently completed a Flex-based project that used David Chang’s Zip utility in the form of a SWC library. It seemed like an intriguing example for the JavaScript side of the house, so I picked up jQuery and set to work.
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