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Re:Internet Archive expands Flash support by fenomas on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:50AM (#36734253)
Ohhh, I think one of the OS-integration features was that you could invoke an instance of the OS's web component, is that what you mean? AIR itself didn't do anything with html/js but you could render web content at runtime via the OS component.

Just looked back at some docs now, thanks. The things you forget in ten years..

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Re:Internet Archive expands Flash support by pocketarc on Saturday July 15, 2023 @08:28AM (#36735986)
Yeah, same! I didn't remember that it had been a wrapper (to be honest I have very little memory of -how- we did it), but I suppose it makes sense. TweetDeck was Adobe AIR too at the time, no?
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Re:Internet Archive expands Flash support by fenomas on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:12AM (#36736377)
Yeah, I'm almost sure there was no html renderer or JS engine in AIR, but you could have pure html apps with no flash in the source now that I think back. TweetDeck was I'm sure, and one other high-profile AIR desktop app was the launcher/lobby app for League of Legends.
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