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Announcing Mobile OpenLaszlo – OpenLaszlo based W3C Widgets, native Smartphone Apps and OpenScreen Project Apps

July 15, 2010

With the introduction of the iPhone many of the leading RIA frameworks have been investigating ways to apply the same technologies which we use for building RIAs to mobile application development. Fully-fledged browsers on smartphones (iPhone, Android, Palm/webOS, and others) make it possible to run large JavaScript applications on phones, but there are some challenges [...]

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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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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 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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OpenLaszlo CSS3 text-shadow demo

August 24, 2009

Following my two posts last week on OpenLaszlo, HTML5, CSS3 and open standards based Flash-like RIAs (OpenLaszlo, HTML 5 and CSS3 – driving adoption of open standards in RIAs, and OpenLaszlo and JavaScript/DHTML – migrating RIAs from Flash to Open Standards), I decided to put together a demo of what it would mean to have [...]

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OpenLaszlo, HTML 5 and CSS3 – driving adoption of open standards in RIAs

August 21, 2009

Since 2007 the OpenLaszlo team and community members have built a number of small demos showing how features of the upcoming CSS3 improvements like CSS 3D Transforms Module Level 3 and HTML 5 standard could be supported in OpenLaszlo. While those early demos showed us what could be done with HTML, JavaScript and CSS, Firefox [...]

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Support vote for open source version of Flash Player

August 19, 2009

Frédéric Saunier created a JIRA feature request in the Adobe bug database, asking for an open source version of Adobe Flash Player. In a blog post he has more details on what is meant by that:
A lot of things are currently moving around Flash technology, like the W3C hardly looking for royalty-free, open source solutions [...]

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OpenLaszlo and JavaScript/DHTML – migrating RIAs from Flash to Open Standards

August 19, 2009

Since the first announcement of the DHTML runtime for OpenLaszlo in March 2006, the OpenLaszlo team has been working hard on improving the DHTML runtime – making it possible to run very large and complex RIAs as both Flash and Ajax/JavaScript applications. The release of a first version of OpenLaszlo with official support for DHTML [...]

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OpenLaszlo BugMash – start contributing to the OpenLaszlo core code

August 17, 2009

Open source projects like OpenLaszlo depend on the community as much as they depend on corporate sponsoring: OpenLaszlo nears its 5th anniversary as an open source success story in October 09. It’s only natural that bugs build up in a project over such a long time, and now the OpenLaszlo core team and committers ask [...]

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Oracle, Java, JavaFX, OpenOffice, and Thinkfree Office – competing with Google Apps Premier Edition

August 5, 2009

When Larry Ellison spoke at JavaONE this year, he mentioned the importance of Java, JavaFX and OpenOffice for Oracle’s strategy around the merger with Sun.
“We encourage the OpenOffice group to quickly build their version of a spread sheet or a word app using JavaFX.”
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The CEO has also made it clear [...]

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