Adobe AIR 1.5 update available
Adobe announced the availability of Adobe AIR 1.5. Adobe AIR is a core component of the Adobe Flash Platform that enables developers to deliver rich Internet applications outside the browser. The new version brings new features and performance enhancements.
Adobe AIR 1.5, a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform, which enables Web developers to deliver rich Internet applications outside the browser. Offering new features and performance improvements to create more expressive AIR applications, Adobe AIR 1.5 incorporates the open source WebKit HTML engine which is also an official engine of Apple Safari and now accelerates application performance with “SquirrelFish,” the new WebKit JavaScript interpreter.
SquirrelFish is fast—much faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter. Check out the numbers. On the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter.