Did you create Adobe AIR Application before? Do you know, beside actionscript, javascript also avaliable inside the AIR application. Within the AIR application, you can build your interface with html and then make connection between AIR and the html interface by javscript.

jQuery is the commonly used javscript framework. Larry Ullman at Peachpit bring us a article for using jQuery with AIR Application.

You can visit the tutorial here. It is a quick start article which let you learn using jQuery within AIR application.