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Rendering Flash/SWF content in JavaScript through open standards

January 15, 2010

Last year – in a discussion about what could be the next feature for a multi-runtime RIA platform like OpenLaszlo – the former OpenLaszlo director Jim Grandy came up with the idea of generating either JavaScript or OpenLaszlo’s XML based LZX source code out of exisiting SWF files. Today heise.de reported the launch of project [...]

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Adobe – Flash Player FP-40 bug will be fixed with the release of 10.1

October 21, 2009

After many months (even years) of waiting we finally have some information from Adobe on when the infamous FP-40 bug should be fixed. As an Adobe employee posted a few days ago: “I did a little investigation and confirmed this is fixed and will be available in the Flash Player 10.1 Beta to be released [...]

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Modernizr – detecting HTML5 and CSS3 support in browswers

October 16, 2009

Have you ever been dealing with detecting support for the new HTML5 and CSS3 features in browsers? Check out Modernizr, an open source JavaScript library which will probably make things a lot easier for you:
Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while [...]

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OpenLaszlo & Open Web – Rounded Corners in SWF10 and DHTML

October 11, 2009

Just after finishing my last post on downloadable font support, I saw another update to OpenLaszlo trunk, containing the code to support rounded corners in the JavaScript/DHTML runtime. Here’s a a screenshot of the application in SWF10:

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OpenLaszlo & Open Web – CSS Downloadable Fonts Supported

October 11, 2009

Max Carlson has added support for CSS @font-face inclusion of True Type (TTF), Open Type Fonts (OTF) and embedded fonts in Internet Explorer (EOT) to OpenLaszlo trunk. As a result, now it’s possible to display custom fonts in Firefox (3.5+), Safari/Webkit, Opera 10 and IE 6,7 and 8. Technically Chrome supports downloadable fonts as [...]

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OpenLaszlo 5 Community Wishlist

October 1, 2009

If you have been using OpenLaszlo, what things would like to see improved, which features should be added? Any ideas for new APIs or standards that should be supported? Following some comments and good feedback on OpenLaszlo in the forums, I created this wiki page as a “community wishlist” for a future OpenLaszlo 5 version.
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Visiting Oktoberfest in Munich – be sure to read Wired’s Oktoberfest Wiki

September 26, 2009

Reading Wired on a calm Saturday morning I was surprised to discover they feature an “Oktoberfest 101 Wiki” on their front page. If you live in Munich you can’t miss the thousands of Germans and tourists from all over the world, running around in Lederhosen and Dirndl. While the dress at least resembles what’s part [...]

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Google Chrome Frame is teaching Microsoft a lesson – maybe solution to Korean IE craziness?

September 26, 2009

The announcement of Google Chrome Frame – an Internet Explorer extension that embeds a Google Chrome browser into Internet Explorer – could sarcastically be called the “making of an IE which fully supports open standards for the first time”! If you haven’t heard of Google Chrome Frame, here is the description from the project website:
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How long is Adobe Flash going to be around?

September 23, 2009

I can already hear the Flash community cry out loud, but I’m convinced that Flash – within the next 2 years – will lose the position as the leading RIA technology for visually advanced RIAs. The technical revolution we witness with a growing number of extremely powerful JavaScript engines (Firefox, Webkit, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera) [...]

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OpenLaszlo DHTML CSS 3 demo – to Flash or not to Flash, is no question!

August 25, 2009

Since the OpenLaszlo DHTML runtime has been released, I’ve been wondering if there’ll ever be the time for me to say: “I can imagine that Flash won’t be a necessity for visually very appealing RIAs!” That time has come, thanks to the incredible work on great open source projects like the Firefox browser or Webkit.
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