Monthly Archives: March 2009

Restarting an AIR application

By Ian McKellar | March 11, 2009

For reasons too complicated and secret to go into here I’m writing an Adobe AIR application that needs to restart itself occasionally. I didn’t find any clear documents describing how to do this but after some reverse engineering and experimentation, here’s what I came up with.
The air.swf movie that’s used by web pages to install [...]

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Mozilla and WebKit, browser platform wars.

By Ian McKellar | March 4, 2009

This post began as a comment on Matthew Gertner’s blog post The Browser Platform Wars. It’s a rant not an article, don’t take it personally.

In my experience (8 years building Mozilla based products and playing with WebKit since it was first released as WebCore in 2003) there are a few clear technical and social differences [...]