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Software Adobe creates applications for ‘living’ Web pages
‘Unstoppable movement’: Dr Naresh Gupta (left). Adobe’s Managing Director for India R&D, and Mr David Wadhwani, US-based Vice-President (Platform Business) at Adobe’s Rich Internet Applications Summit in Bangalore on Thursday. Anand Parthasarathy Bangalore April 3 Static Web pages which merely give you information and pictures? That is so ‘yesterday’! Tomorrow’s ‘living’ portals will allow surfers to switch seamlessly from live video and audio content to interaction through instant mail and chat. The name of the game is Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and imaging solutions leader Adobe has just created an Open Source framework to help create such Web content — Flex — as well as a vehicle to run them — AIR. At a technology summit on Thursday, to point at such RIA possibilities, Adobe showcased a number of compelling applications where both tools have already been deployed by corporates ranging from e-Bay to the New York Times to breathe new life into their Internet portals. RIA constituted a “massive unstoppable movement”, of which they should be a part, delegates were told. In a special briefing for Business Line, Adobe’s San Francisco-based Vice-President, Platform Business Unit, Mr David Wadhwani, explained: “Video will soon be an integral part of all Net applications. Data will flow to users who will get to decide at what point they want to quit the ‘Cloud’ and revert to the offline mode of their desktops.” Once such applications are written, users can harness them in much the same way they are now able to enjoy Flash animation, he added. Cloud is new jargon for the envelope of information that is the Internet. Adobe’s Managing Director for India Research and Development, Dr Naresh Gupta, added that a large part of the upcoming Linux version of the AIR runtime tool was crafted by Indian engineers at the company’s Noida centre, while the Bangalore R&D unit contributed significantly to the Flex framework. Details about the new product offerings including links to some free downloads can be found at: www.adobe.com/go/air and www.adobe.com/go/flex The summit also saw a preview of a tool still in the pipeline — called Thermo — which enables Web page designers to double as developers who do the nitty gritty of programming. More Stories on : Software | Internet
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