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Making web development easier..."One of the great frustrations of Web development is the delivery mechanism itself. Seemingly, no two Web browsers are the same. Firefox, Safari, and Chrome are largely compliant with standards, but still demonstrate variations; meanwhile, the three versions of Internet Explorer—6,7, and 8—remain in use, with vagaries between each and significant disparities with almost every other browser.

Adobe will not go quietly into that web app night..."At Google's developer conference last month, VP of engineering Vic Gundotra declared that "the Web has won" and suggested that emerging open Web standards such as HTML 5 have become the preferred platform to create Web applications, even graphically rich ones.  

A new open source web app platform to check out..."Rich Internet applications (RIAs) have been mostly a consumer phenomenon, providing more flash than practical use, but Adobe Systems and SpringSource are set to change that with today's announcement of an integration initiative.

A big hurdle for 64-bit Linux desktop users just got jumped..."Starting to answer the clamorous demand from open-source fans, Adobe Systems plans to release an alpha version of its Flash Player technology on Monday for those using 64-bit Linux software.

Adobe weighs the costs and benefits of open sourcinf Flash..."Adobe is under mounting community pressure to open source Flash, but as The Register reports, it's easier to talk about open source than to actually deliver it. I'm guessing that the fact that Microsoft's Silverlight has yet to make any serious inroads against Flash as the biggest reason for Adobe's alleged lack of appetite for open sourcing Flash.

"AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a wrapper around a set of technologies that enables developers to build rich Internet applications that deploy on the desktop. Applications are created using a mixture of JavaScript, HTML, and Flash..."