[gbevin]

I personally don't see why it needs to be an AIR client? I totally see the benefit of an state of the art RIA application, but given the DZone site's purpose there is nothing that should warrant a native application. I would start out with a RIA client and fleshen that out as much as possible. Then, if there are features that are impossible without AIR, make the AIR client that uses everything from the RIA client and more.