RIA? AIR? I think you have a typo in your definition. No, thanks, I don’t. Okay, let’s backup a little.
AIR is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIA) to the desktop. Thus, it allows web developers to work with the development tools of their choice and the approaches they find most comfortable to build web content and AIR applications.
Originally called Apollo, …