Adobe AIR has an auto-update functionality, and supports full text input in fullscreen mode, but I understand that you want to have a pure browser app.
For a purely browser based approach, you could use the new Flash P2P functionality (application level multicast in the local network). There is no need for the Adobe Stratus server in such a scenario, and it should be really fast. - Raju On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Rami Ojares <[email protected]> wrote: > Running two separate virtual machines in different browser windows could do > it in some cases. > Let's say a video preview monitor that only needs some parameters > (sessionid, videoid etc.) to seem like belonging to the same application. > But try to implement a smooth drag and drop functionality between the two > virtual machines by routing the information through the server. > I think that's where the hackiness of the solution would become evident. > I just don't understand what the security issue of opening windows is, > especially when you can do it with javascript in a browser. > > Another issue is the strange restriction that all text input is disabled in > fullscreen mode. > What is the purpose of that? > It makes the fullscreen mode useless in the context of an application. > > And the displaylist bug hasn't moved forward in Adobe's jira. > I quess I am growing weary of the battle... > > - rami > > On 16.8.2010 21:40, P T Withington wrote: >> >> As a proof of concept that this is possible: If your application is >> connected to a back-end server, you could design your application as 2 >> applications that communicate through the back end. Clearly the two >> applications could be launched in separate browser windows that could be >> displayed on separate monitors. >> >> Obviously you would like something a little less contrived. You could >> write a custom wrapper page that opens two browser windows with the two >> halves of your application. >> >> Presumably what you would really want is a way for your application to >> open a new browser window with some of it's views in it. Here, I think you >> will run into browser security as in general one browser window is not >> permitted to talk to another. >> >> On 2010-08-16, at 08:49, Rami Ojares wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> This is just an enquiry. >>> I would need my app to work in multiple monitors. >>> And I suppose that this is not possible in flash (only AIR supports >>> NativeWindow class). >>> >>> Do you think that this is a state of affairs that will never change >>> because of some obscure security reasons? >>> >>> If it is so then it is clear that it will probably never be part of OL >>> either because it can not be implemented in flash. >>> Do you think this could be implemented in browser-runtime? Opening new >>> browser window without decorations or something like that. >>> >>> It seems the best way to make serious cross-platform applications that >>> are distributed by browser are still java applets ... still. >>> >>> - rami >>> >> >> > >
