Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) was introduced to me at WebDu this year. I recently found a great video tutorial on how to create a basic Adobe AIR application and hook it up with a JavaScript framework.

This would be great to hook up with script.aculo.us or the Prototype JavaScript framework and allow you to create really nice Ajaxey-like applications.

From this video it appears that AIR really allows you to deliver rich internet application like sites to a desktop. In the example the guy builds a Mac like ‘doc’ with Simple HTML and Javascript. Once that’s done he uses some basic Dreamweaver extensions to create this webpage. Once that’s done he simply converts it to an AIR app – within 2 minutes.

I can already think of quite a few ideas – like you could create your own toolbar / deskbar – by simply creating the webpage – with RSS capability etc… and then convert it to an AIR app. I’m very impressed…