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I came across this demonstration video of Adobe’s new crossplatform runtime:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/videos/apollo_demo07/index.html

Most of the stuff has been possible using Java Webstart for a couple of years now, but somehow I’ve got the feeling the people at Adobe are so fare ahead in the marketing department that Appolo won’t have any problems surpassing Java Webstart at all.

A fancy video presentation like this just makes the whole concept clear to people actually making decisions, instead of the developers and programmers building them.

Technically I do however think that abandoning the operating system’s user interface guidelines is a bad idea. Coming from the less standardized world of Linux (motif / gtk / kde / gnome / xfce / java / QT) I have to say that having interface coherence (like OSX and Windows offer) is really important; if it is done right.

On the other hand, the web as we know it just screams for next generation of technology; all this CSS and Ajax stuff with it’s browser issues and kludgy layouting is just getting stretched beyond it’s limits.

By the way, didn’t anyone else find the resemblance between a ‘crossplatform runtime’ and something we call a ‘browser’ remarkable?