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Building a Mac-style Dock in AIR with Ajax

September 6th, 2007 by Ryan Stewart

Andre Charland was feeling a little bit of Mac-envy while on the bus tour so he deiced to take his Ajax skills and Adobe AIR and do something about it. The result was a Mac dock that uses Nitobi’s Fish Eye Component.

You’ll notice that a lot of the icons in the screenshot point to web applications which I thought was funny/ironic. The Nitobi guys do a lot of their work using web apps but for something like a launcher, AIR gave them what they wanted on the desktop.

This isn’t what I would consider the ideal use case for AIR, but it’s a cool demo and it does bridge the web and the desktop.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 11:57 am and is filed under Adobe AIR, Ajax.

2 Responses to “Building a Mac-style Dock in AIR with Ajax”

  1. On September 9th, 2007 at 1:50 pm, Andre’s Blog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-09-08 wrote:

    [...] on AIR Weblog - Building a Mac Doc style widget Andre Charland was feeling a little bit of Mac-envy while on the bus tour so he deiced to take his Ajax skills and Adobe AIR and do something about it. The result was a Mac dock that uses Nitobi’s Fish Eye Component. (tags: air ajax dock nitobi fisheye ui) [...]

  2. On September 17th, 2007 at 8:35 am, 10668844 wrote:

    very neat. i am going to give it a try.

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