on AIR Bus Tour Boston: AJAX in AIR
Andre Charland from Nitobi gave a talk about AJAX in AIR.
Why is AJAX in Air a good thing: code reuse, skills reuse, HTML is really good at some things, and maintaining existing UI patterns.
He talked about the benefits AIR gives over browser. This was a quick rehash of the list from the AIR API overview.
He showed an AJAX Fisheye Menu Example. Demonstrated that the same AJAX code works in a browser as in an AIR application, very little code shown.
Offline Saleforce.com demo. Showing online/offline sync capabilities. No code shown.
MultiVista: Construction document management application. Showed dragging and droping pictures from desktop into application as an alternative to uploading through a browser dialog. Directory scan to keep folders in sync. No code shown.