I say ‘mostly' since, in fact it is perfectly possible to embed Adobe's Flash player into a standalone application written in C#, say, or Delphi and program its behaviour using Adobe's Flex framework. But AIR applications don't need to be embedded into other programs in order to operate ‘standalone'. They can be packaged up inside AIR-powered windows so that, in principle, an AIR application can be completely self-contained. Native Desktop Integration The advantages of AIR will (...)
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