Chanel's Blog » open laszlo http://cmunezero.com Where code meets love... and a lot of awkward silences... Tue, 11 May 2010 21:17:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 OpenLaszlo http://cmunezero.com/2008/03/15/openlaszlo/ http://cmunezero.com/2008/03/15/openlaszlo/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:24:47 +0000 chanel http://cmunezero.com/2008/03/15/openlaszlo/ I just discovered this really cool application called OpenLaszlo. They are an “open-source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications on the World Wide Web.” One of their claims is “write once, run anywhere” (I think we’ve heard this before – Java).

To me, their syntax and coding style is very similar to Flex. What’s most impressive is that when you “compile” your page/site, you have the option of compiling to flash or DHTML. Working with HTML/CSS all day, they must have a pretty impressive algorithm to ensure browser compatibility, especially on the CSS side.

OpenLaszlo has a lot of promise and is really neat technology. If they really take off and become popular, they will effectively put me out of a job. In the end, they automated the entire process of building a Web2.0 AJAX-powered website and provides another way to produce flash applications in a way that makes sense to traditional web developers.

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