Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Reference

Primary AIR Technologies | 11

Technology Integration and Script Bridging

Because WebKit and the Flash Player are both included
within the runtime, they are integrated together on a very
low level. For example, when HTML is included within Flash
content, it’s actually rendered via the Flash display pipeline,
which, among other things, means that anything that you
can do to a bitmap within Flash (blur, rotate, transform, etc.)
you can also do to HTML.

Figure 1-1. Adobe AIR application structure

Socket services Web/HTTP services

Occasionally connected network

HTML

PDF

SWF

SWF

PDF

HTML

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