Announcing Flash Player 11 and AIR 3

I've started with AIR 1.5 (using HTML, CSS, Javascript) and always like the concept. But Adobe does the strangest things.

For instance, they put up a site where developers could suggest features and vote up the suggestions that were most important to them. The top 3 voted suggestions (by a mile) were some type of support for multi-threading.

Now, here we are in V3 and still no multi-threading. Since AIR uses WebKit, Adobe had to go out of their way to remove the web workers feature because someday they're going to create a more consistent way of doing background processing across flash, flex, and HTML.

And now they've focused AIR on mobile but the WebKit side of AIR has been left out of mobile(though that may change with the PhoneGap purchase). This really makes the docs confusing...You can do this on mobile, this on desktop, this if you're using flash, that if you're using flex, but not this if you're using flash on iOS, etc...

In any case, AIR should have stayed desktop only, then the could have branded the mobile part "AIR Mobile" which would have at least limited the confusion between features and languages available across the two.