Hey Stefano, Excellent point, and thank you very much for clarifying!
The thread I was thinking of (on this list) was about running Timeline on the desktop, which wasn't previously possible with Adobe AIR Beta 1 (when the question came up), but now is with Adobe AIR Beta 2. I was asked back then (by somebody on the team I believe) to keep the list up to date, and this seemed like a good opportunity to do so. I should have been more clear that it was Timeline I was referring to, clearly not SIMILE on the whole. I apologize for my knee-jerk reaction. I also want to be clear about my intents, in that I'm not trying to sell anybody on Adobe products or AIR. The AIR SDK and runtime are both free and I stand to gain nothing from trying to fish a list such as this one. I believe the sophistication of Timeline is a testament to the capabilities of JavaScript and the browser, and have recommended it as a test case for our quality engineering team. I list my company/title in the email in the interest of full disclosure, so please don't react with hostility. What and do and who I work for doesn't mean that I don't have projects with requirements that match the features of Timeline. It is acceptable to work for a software vendor and yet still have interests in compelling software projects such as this, is it not? If I hadn't included that information, and then it was revealed later (even with the best of interests), I would have been heavily flamed. Regards, Kevin Hoyt Platform Evangelist Adobe Systems, Inc. On 10/16/07 1:15 PM, "Stefano Mazzocchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Hoyt wrote: > For what it¹s worth, > > You can also run Simile on the > desktop using Adobe AIR. FWIW, "SIMILE" is the name of the entire research > project, not of any particular software project. So, while it is very > confusing (at least to my ears) to hear people say things such as "run SIMILE > on the desktop" (I would love a technology that ran a research project on a > desktop ;-), I do find myself curious about *which one* of our many software > projects (listed on the sidebar on the top right of our home page > http://simile.mit.edu/) this thread is referring to. -- Stefano > Mazzocchi Digital Libraries Research Group Research > Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave > skype: stefanomazzocchi Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA email: stefanom > at mit . > edu ------------------------------------------------------------------- _____ > __________________________________________ General mailing > list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
