Preface | xiiiThis will make it much easier to then jump into the specific
areas of AIR functionality that interest you.
Once you have read through the book and understand the
basics of how to build an AIR application with HTML and
JavaScript, then you can use the book as a reference, refer-
ring to specific sections when you need to know how to
tackle a specific problem. In particular, the Cookbook sec-
tions should prove useful as you develop AIR applications.
Finally, this book is just an introduction to AIR and does not
cover all of the features and functionality included within it.
It is meant to complement, but not replace, the extensive and
in-depth documentation on AIR provided by Adobe. Make
sure to explore the AIR documentation in order to make sure
you’re familiar with all of the APIs and functionality not cov-
ered in this book.
Conventions Used in This Book
The following typographical conventions are used in this
book:
Plain text
Indicates menu titles, menu options, menu buttons, and
keyboard accelerators (such as Alt and Ctrl).
Italic
Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames,
file extensions, pathnames, directories, and Unix utili-
ties.
Constant width
Indicates commands, options, switches, variables,
attributes, keys, functions, types, classes, namespaces,
methods, modules, properties, parameters, values,
objects, events, event handlers, XML tags, HTML tags,
macros, the contents of files, or the output from com-
mands.