Buddy Toups: A Designer’s Blog December 20, 2006

Apollo is a product from Adobe, schedule release date early 2007, which allows web developers to create full blow desktop applications. Applications developed in Adobe Apollo will run on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. The APIs are build from HTML/CSS, JavaScript(ECMAscript), AJAX, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, and Adobe PDF standards. This means that an experience web design could create cross-platform desktop applications. Adobe’s use of Apple’s standard compliant WebKit browser engine will make developers happy.

Quote from MacNN:

“Adobe’s forthcoming Apollo project is making use of Apple’s WebKit technology, says Adobe engineer Chris Brichford. Apollo is a runtime designed to simplify the development of desktop RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) that uses WebKit to implement HTML rendering. WebKit itself is an open-source browser engine used in Mac OS X applications such as Mail, Dashboard and Safari. Apollo 1.0 is due in the first half of 2007; once the project is complete, Brichford hopes that he and two of his associates will be able to return code improvements to the general WebKit community.”

Full story at MacNN | Adobe to use Apple’s WebKit for Apollo