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AIR 2.0 beta, List of What’s New
| By Rich Tretola | November 17, 2009 | |
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Back in March I had a blog post titled AIR 2.0, what do you want? This post had over 100 comments from passionate AIR developers like myself with their suggestions. Well AIR 2.0 beta is finally here for public consumption and I am seeing many of our requests!
To get AIR 2 beta please visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/.
So Adobe, Thanks for listening!
Here is a list of new features that are now available in AIR 2.0 beta:
- New version of WebKit – Safari 4.0.3 WebKit branch
- Microphone Access API
- Open with default application
- Mass storage device detection
- New networking support
- Database transaction savepoints
- Creating native installers
- Launching and interacting with native processes
- Screen reader support (Windows only)
- Mac vector printing support
- Idle time-out settings
- Mac PowerPC no longer supported
- Linux installer available as native .deb and .rpm installer
- IPv6 Support
- Increased maximum size of NativeWindow
- File Promises
- Multitouch events
- Print Job Enhancements
- IME API and IME text input enhancement
- Global Exception Handler
Topics: Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
November 17th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Hi there,
Any reason why Screen reader support is only available for Windows? Any time scale for Mac and Linux?
I thought Adobe finally left behind the days of “Windows only” when they promised to release FP versions at the same time.
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Rich Tretola Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
It is a beta product. There will certainly be cross platform support when the product is released as AIR 2.0.
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November 18th, 2009 at 11:24 am
No Mac ppc support. I will be gettiing a new computer, but in this economy for people who have decent working ppc macs, air will loose those users.
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