According to foreign media reports, sitepen recently announced a very striking new technology: queued. It shows how Netflix APIs work with dojo toolkit and Adobe AIR.
Queued is a desktop application built on air. It not only provides basic services such as search or preference Video watching queues on the Netflix website, but also adds some new
Function. For example, if you can view and manage your video queue offline, a synchronization engine will update the queue for you in real time when you go online again. In addition, because the program runs in this technical context
When Netflix receives or sends a new video watching request, you will also receive a pop-up window message. The source code of this program can be found on Google or directly obtained from the program itself. This process
It is written in the Javascript language in sequence, and draws on the essence of sitepen's dojo air extension library.
Note:
Sitepen: a network application development company that provides support, training, consulting, and other services for companies such as Adobe, AOL, and eye-fi. Its well-known open-source software products include dojo toolkit, cometd, and DWR.
Netflix, the largest online DVD leasing company in the United States.
Dojo Tookit: dojo is a very powerful object-oriented JavaScript toolbox that provides a complete set of widgets and special effects for developing Web client programs.
Adobe AIR: Adobe Integrated Runtime (air) is a cross-operating system runtime that leverages existing web development technologies (flash, flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build a rich Internet application and deploy it as a desktop application.
Related links:
YouTube Demo Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch? V = pk_c6gbkumo & eurl = http:
// Blogs.adobe.com/air/2009/02/queued_movie_manager_adobe_air.html? Sdid = eencl
Queued source code from Google: http://code.google.com/p/queued/
Http://www.sitepen.com/labs/dair/
Netfix API: http://developer.netflix.com/page/Resources
Air extension library for sitepen dojo: http://www.sitepen.com/labs/dair/
Revin Guillen's new blog: http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2009/02/17/queued/