Adobe AIR 1.5 is out, now we can bend some pixels.
The last version of Adobe AIR is 1.5 and brings a lot new features especially through integrating Flash Player 10 and updating the included WebKit. More about this can be read on Adobe AIR team blog.
What I want to talk about is a new sample made specially to show the new capabilities of this release, BlackBookSafe. It is an HTML/JavaScript application using jQuery framework and leveraging the encrypted local database, 3d transformations and Pixel Bender effects. Indeed, with the new AIR you can “bend pixels” 
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BlackBookSafe screen
BlackBookSafe bended screen
The effect was created using the Adobe Pixel Bender available in Flash Player. And yes, I said that BlackBookSafe was created using HTML and JavaScript. You want to find out how was it done? Mihai Corlan, an Adobe Platform Evangelist wrote an article detailing exactly how this application was created in BlackBookSafe: Anatomy of an AIR 1.5 application.
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hello it seems like Adobe air contains an in built browser. How is this achieved? Is this with html kit? These guys here have a widget that appears to have a built in browser and it seems to work rather well. Where can i find a list of libraries for Air or am i mistaken and thats not how it works. http://www.princesssparkle.co.uk/
Hi Linda,
Adobe AIR is using webkit as an HTML renderer component. That means you can choose to develop an AIR application using HTML/JavaScript or Flex/ActionScript. Spaz and the wedding news application are using JavaScript as their programming language of choice so is exactly like building any normal web application however with additional APIs at your disposal.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/ajax/getting_started.html is a good place to start learning about how to create a JavaScript/HTML AIR application.