Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
Tags: adobe , flex , framework , javascript , flash , html



2 Opinions:
Too bad this thing eats memory. Nice concept, though. Probably has a very lucrative future.
Very welcome complement to the redundant Java cross-platform desktop apps.
Required for ebay desktop. Installed Beta 2 ten minutes ago and it works nicely.