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By: Appcelerator Releases New Preview Of Open Source Developer Platform Titanium, Adds Bells And Whistles | Blog YODspica Ltd

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:25:47 +0000

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Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:41:12 +0000

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By: [The Far Edge] » Appcelerator Releases New Preview Of Open Source Developer Platform Titanium, Adds Bells And Whistles

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:01:17 +0000

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Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:09:23 +0000

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Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:50:24 +0000

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Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:37:03 +0000

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By: Appcelerator Releases New Preview Of Open Source Developer Platform Titanium, Adds Bells And Whistles

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:58:37 +0000

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By: Duane Nickull

Duane Nickull — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:04:55 +0000

Why would someone raise money to compete with an incumbent free offering like AIR (Free runtime, free compiler (open source Flex SDK))? Is it just because it is open source? The Flex SDK is also open source which is used to build a lot of SWF’s that can be compiled into AIR. AIR uses the WebKit Open Source engine for HTML, CSS as well as the ISO PDF standard. How much more can be done?

Sorry man – I will not use it.

Disclosure: I am an Adobe employee but this has nothing to do with my decision.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:06:39 +0000

This isn’t allowing bundling, it’s just allowing distribution of Adobes AIR installer. Bundling would be including a specific version of the AIR runtime in the application – e.g. making the application independent of any shared runtime that may be installed. Already AIR 1.5 broke applications written for AIR 1.1 when the system global AIR runtime was upgraded by installing a separate AIR app – if AIR was allowed to be bundled with an app this wouldn’t happen.

“You also may not distribute the Adobe AIR installer files or the extracted Adobe AIR installer files within your product installer for any other purpose than installation of the Adobe AIR runtime or your Adobe AIR Application.”
http://www.adob...bution_faq.html

By: cwp

cwp — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:02:09 +0000

I’ve downloaded and installed playtanium for XP and worked fine. A few suggestions though: basic stuff are missing and this is not an excuse even for beta versions. For example volume controls, relevant videos in a vertical stripe, other videos from the same publisher, make a shortcut of the video to the desktop, convert the video to flv / mpg and save to desktop, low-high quality stream, and a whole bunch of other stuff that other desktop or iphone video players already incorporate. The platform seems promising, but not if it just aggregates stuff or acts as a wrapper for a single function. I see that many developers lately are trying to detach the apps from the OS and make them more iPhone-like, which makes sense in some cases, but Java jnlp files do that for some time now. Plus I’ve never used Adobe AIR apps cause they make no sense other than they are simply a single executable that requires a plugin to run in the same manner that .NET apps did years ago. To me, AIR is nothing more than a better Flash executable. Not my idea of an innovating platform. All apps should be standalone from day one anyway. The fact that we are trying to patch the mess that microsoft caused for almost 2 decades with libraries wont make things better anytime soon. A centralized library-repository in the cloud similar to that of Linux but with XML descriptions for each app to grab the necessary files would be more convenient IMO. If the future is cloud computing, then the first thing to do would be LEAVE AS MANY STUFF IN THE CLOUD AS POSSIBLE AND KEEP THE CLIENT CLEAN. This means apps running inside their own containers. Well, again SUN did try that too. Who’s using that idea for the masses? None that I’m aware of.

By: Titanium - новая RIA платформа | JSToolbox - все о JavaScript

Titanium - новая RIA платформа | JSToolbox - все о JavaScript — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:41:19 +0000

[...] с одноименным названием Appcelerator SDK. По данным TechCrunch, компания вложила в разработку Titanium более 4 миллионов [...]

By: jeff haynie

jeff haynie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:01:56 +0000

the challenge of “release often, release early” is that you’re much more likely to run into hiccups like this. we’re an open source company with a growing community and we’ve erred on the side of trying to get stuff out to our community sooner rather than later to get feedback, honest opinions and solicit help. we’re going to make mistakes like everyone does and we’re working hard to correct them.

we love adobe air and think it’s a great product and that adobe is a wonderful company (we’re big fans and use a lot of their products ourselves). titanium supports flash and flex apps could be built and deployed on titanium. our approach is a little different and we think that’s a good think ultimately for developers and end-users. we’d welcome working with adobe as well just like we’re working with a lot of other open source projects that have some overlap.

By: hjwatso1 new media bits » Blog Archive » Titanium, Interactive Video Object Manipulation and Zoetrope

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:14:47 +0000

[...] Adobe AIR has come along and it’s called Titanium. Check out TechCrunch it has a in depth write up of it. As far as I can see, it does what AIR does, however there seems [...]

By: Titanium vs. OpenLazlo vs. Adobe AIR vs. Silverlight/WPF vs. JavaFX: Round 2 « Social Mode

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:15:41 +0000

[...] 9, 2008 by un1crom Well, I got a comment on my last RIA post and saw the news on techcrunch that the RIA platform space just got a little more crowdedAppcelerator Titanium is an open source [...]

By: Brandon Harper

Brandon Harper — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:20:13 +0000

So what if Adobe decides to open source AIR like they have Flex? OpenLaszlo is awful to work with compared to Flex… I just don’t see it being a good long-term bet to pick as a developer.

I’m all for open source software, but this platform/business model doesn’t add up for me. It’s like the knock-off version of AIR unless there is some sort of compelling reason they are better than AIR that I’m missing. Maybe their VC’s didn’t know something like AIR already existed?

By: cease

cease — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:26:48 +0000

are we dubbing any desktop client as an Internet application now. I don’t get it. I’m in the class of Ill pass on installing stuff, and prefer it on the browser.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:23:07 +0000

This sounds like something I could use so I visited the Appcelerator web site. However, the web site had some bugs.

1. In FireFox 3 and Chrome the FAQ pages have broken styles. For example the answer to a FAQ appears above the question. I think it’s due to the “float left” commands on several elements.

2. In all tested browsers the links on each FAQ answer page, “See other questions” and “Ask a question” do not work. The URLs appear to point back to the same page.

3. On this contact page, when I unselected the “Join our mailing list?” check box the “Send” button dims out. Is this a feature or a bug? I find it very off-putting.

You only get one chance to make a first impression and you’re web site is my first impression. (Did you use your own product to create the this web site?)

I wish them success and will look into the product in more detail.

Peace,

Rob:-]

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By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:21:36 +0000

I’d like to see Adobe open-source AIR.

By: Ammar Mardawi

Ammar Mardawi — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:05:39 +0000

The main components in Adobe AIR are open source; Tamarin, Flex SDK, BlazeDS …etc. There is a bigger chance that Adobe opens the rest of AIR before deciding to drop it. (which will never ganna happen given AIR’s amazing success so far).

@Roshan, you don’t need to compile to binary to protected the source code. You can use obfuscation just like what we offer here for ActionScript: http://www.kindisoft.com/

By: Robert Yeager

Robert Yeager — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:52:03 +0000

There is an open-source RIA technology that lets you build AIR apps…OpenLaszlo. OpenLaszlo also lets you deploy to native Javascript/DHTML/AJAX.

Still doesn’t help if Adobe drops AIR entirely, but at least with OpenLaszlo you have an open-source tool with the ability to choose multiple runtimes.

By: Coty Rosenblath

Coty Rosenblath — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:40:19 +0000

I think what is different and better is that Titanium is open source. That may not seem like a big deal, but consider that Adobe just announced layoffs of 600 employees. See the article above for what is happening at Appcelerator. If Adobe drops Air, you’re stuck. With open source, you always have options.

By: Appcelerator launches Titanium and raises $4.1 million in first round | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:31:26 +0000

[...] announced the release of its first version of its RIA platform named Titanium for developers. The platform will be [...]

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:21:29 +0000

How is this different or better then Adobe AIR? Just adding a bundled installer is not particularly compelling.

By: Jeff Haynie

Jeff Haynie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:54:54 +0000

it’s not compiled currently but something that a number of people have asked for…