I’ve been playing with Flex and Adobe Air for a while now, and I’ve wanted to test the abilities of the Air HTML component for future projects. So I built my own mini Air Web Browser.
During the Air beta the mx:HTML component didn’t do javascript very well, and it didn’t do flash at all, from what I could remember. I created a simple little browser with Adobe Flex Builder 3 and the latest Adobe Air SDK. It runs embedded Flash/swf great, and does well with javascript. I tested the javascript abilities with prototype and some custom functions. You’re more than welcome to play with it and make changes.
Download
- Adobe Air (required if you don’t have it already)
- Air Web Browser.air
- Source
#1 by Chribbe on June 2, 2008 - 5:39 pm
Nice!Check out: http://www.airbrowserwar.com
#2 by Jonny on December 9, 2009 - 7:46 am
is there a way altar the opacity of the entire browser, and its contents? If you can add this feature, I would be so very greatful :)
#3 by Scott on December 11, 2009 - 11:49 am
I personally use PowerMenu for making my windows transparent or always on top, if the application does not have a native solution for it.
#4 by kanu kukreja on March 4, 2010 - 4:25 pm
http://www.lucentminds.com/_filelib/images/airbrowser-thumb.jpg
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#5 by Scott on July 15, 2010 - 10:02 am
Yes. I need to find time to restore my lost images.
#6 by Chris on August 24, 2010 - 9:34 am
Does not handle SSL cert errors :(
#7 by Ken on February 8, 2011 - 11:30 am
Hi, Great app – is it possible to change the default page? Thanks!
#8 by Scott on May 25, 2011 - 5:58 am
Not without altering the source.
#9 by Indian Music on June 12, 2011 - 1:31 pm
Does it allow DOM access and manipulation?
#10 by rehan on June 14, 2011 - 5:44 am
great app
but
How can i open a new link(which present on the opened page in a browser) in a tab?
#11 by Scott on September 1, 2011 - 8:27 am
No. This was a simple concept test.
#12 by Luke fernandez on September 15, 2011 - 12:42 am
Have you had any success getting audio files (like wav or mp3) that are referred to via an embed tag to run in the browser? I can get YouTube pages to render and play fine but I’m stumped how to get audio files to run. Any tips?
#13 by Scott on September 15, 2011 - 6:49 am
I don’t think the HTML5 audio tag will work, but you should be able to use some flash-based audio player in your html. You could also script something with AS3 Sound and SoundChannel to load and play the audio.
#14 by logiciel turf on December 29, 2011 - 12:25 pm
Thanks for the code, I’m trying to explore the power of html control on flex 3 api and this sample will help me a lot.
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