My general take on all this is three-fold: Nothing else is even an option to consider. And even if I’m mainly a Firefox users, for me it’s a pretty easy decision whether I want to be able to extend Safari or run Adobe AIR (let’s just say Adobe isn’t close to winning that one).Īdobe has to make sure Adobe AIR works even though people have InputManagers like SIMBL installed. I will leave it unsaid if Safari should totally change its extendability or not, but this means that if you want Adobe AIR 1.5 to work on your Mac, you basically can’t extend Safari. A quick look at something like Pimp My Safari shows just how important this approach is. The downside with this, though, is since the Safari web browser basically has a non-existent plugin/extension structure, smart developers have used SIMBL to extend Safari with all sorts of nice features. If you do that, the problem magically disappears! SIMBL usage The solution is to completely empty any Input Managers you have installed on your Mac, located under /Library/InputManagers and ~/Library/InputManagers (the Library folder located under your user folder). It seems that Adobe AIR, since it’s based on the WebKit rendering engine, has a severe problems with InputManagers, such as SIMBL, on Mac computers (note, this does not apply to any computers running Windows or Linux). Interestingly enough, he didn’t write the solution in the e-mail itself, but rather linked to a comment in a blog post from Mike Chambers, who’s one of the people on the Adobe AIR team. The Swedish support, where my journey started, failed to solve my problem (I didn’t choose Sweden, I got directed to them through IP or something), so eventually I got a direct e-mail from a Adobe person in the UK with the solution. However, that’s a total of six weeks to make any AIR app running on my computer! And, even though they gave me polite and fairly swift replies, it took all the time to March 3rd to solve the problem (to be honest, the last week there my replies weren’t that fast either). January 23rd I contacted Adobe support through its web site, and heard back from them within a few days. No matter which one I tried, they just froze on me when I started them, and I had to force-quit them. However, when I installed version 1.5 on my Mac, no Adobe AIR application would work. Then in November last year Adobe released version 1.5 of the Adobe AIR framework and eventually, during the beginning of this year, I looked into it to see if any of the problems and annoyances I had encountered previously had been solved. Last summer I was busy developing a few Adobe AIR applications ( GMDesk, facedesk, Memory), and then during the fall i didn’t do much of that. I recently had a lot of problems with the Adobe AIR framework so I thought I’d share that information with you. Adobe AIR 1.5 issue – solution and support experience Published on Monday, March 9, 2009
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |