Looks Like ‘Apollo’ Will Soon Be No More
Via Ted Patrick:
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Google Gears and Apollo… and Tubes?
Since reading this announcement on the Google Gears API Blog last evening, I’ve been wondering to myself (from time-to-time) how this would/could/will apply to the Apollo runtime. Apollo’s integrated web engine is WebKit which is the same engine the Safari browser runs on… but Safari is not supported by the Gears API as of yet. …
ApolloRanch: Boulder – The Day After
It was raining the entire evening so I left for Boulder fairly early. I actually arrived at the planetarium (the entire conference was inside a planetarium!) 20 minutes early and they hadn’t even begun setting up the registration tables. So I just hung back and had a look at all the materials posted along the …
ApolloRanch: Boulder
I’ll be at ApolloRanch in Boulder this coming Saturday evening. The event is scheduled to begin at 5 o’clock and run just shy of midnight. Sounds like they have a full and engaging schedule lined up with a lot of opportunities to both interface with other developers and learn a lot of useful stuff at …
Adobe to Open Source Flex
Adobe annouced today that Flex is going open source! Adobe is announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes not only the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released, but also …
First ‘Apollo’ App (finally)
When the Apollo alpha was first released a few weeks back, I began working on an application which would allow the user to drag a photo into a canvas area, and then present drawing tools to modify the photo and save it to the hard drive. Certain functionality such as drag and drop support is …
Apollo Security Sandbox
The documentation released along with the Apollo downloads is tremendous. Brushing through on a basic level, I’ve found the following item of interest: SWF files installed with Apollo applications do not need to look for cross-domain policy files. Capabilities that normally require another SWF file to grant access by calling the Security.allowDomain() method are not …