We are announcing the Open Screen Project today in an effort to free up a lot of the restrictions around the Flash Player and make it easy to port to any device you want. We are removing any restrictions on the SWF, FLV, and F4V specifications as well as planning to get rid of the licensing fees for the next major version of the Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices.

One of Adobe’s goals is to give developers a platform where they can be confident that their users will get the same experience across devices and operating systems. The Open Screen Project is another step in that direction. We haven’t talked a lot about Adobe AIR for devices but it’s a big part of our plans. We want you to be able to create desktop applications and native applications for devices side by side using the same web technologies.

Over the coming year we should be providing more information about what the mobile experience on AIR will look like. Stay tuned.

More information:

• Dave McAllister
• Bill Perry
• CNet news
• VentureBeat

Dion Almaer and I gave a talk at Web 2.0 Expo titled “Taking the Web Offline and On the Desktop” which covered some general information about the space and then drilled down into more details about Google Gears and Adobe AIR. The talk also got into how these two technologies can be complimentary while enabling two different sets of use cases. The slides are up on SlideShare and I’ve embedded them below.

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We’ve got a pocketguide for people who want to build AIR applications with JavaScript available now for download over at Ajaxian. We had a previous version available for the beta but this one has been updated with all of the 1.0 features and changes.

The book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License so you can tweak it and use it pretty much however you want. It should be a great resource for anyone getting started with JavaScript in AIR. For those that like paper, you can order a copy from Amazon and I assume we’ll have a bunch to give away at various events where Adobe has a booth.