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 apps for Palm Pre and webOS

August 19, 2009

A little while a go I tested running an OpenLaszlo DHTML application inside the Palm Pre SDK. The results were promising, but that was only the emulator running on my Macbook Pro. David Temkin told me that he has tested some OpenLaszlo apps on the Palm Pre device, and the performance was good. The Palm [...]

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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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First book on webOS by Palm CTO of Software Mitch Allen

August 14, 2009

O’Reilly annonced the publication of the first book on webOS written by Mitch Allen, the CTO of Software at Palm and the webOS team: Palm webOS – The Insider’s Guide to Developing Applications in JavaScript using the Palm Mojo Framework.

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OpenLaszlo demo showing rotation in Safari and Firefox

August 13, 2009

What do you do on an evening when you are not that tired and have some time to play around with the software you like? Well, here’s what I did yesterday. This is small OpenLaszlo demo showing some visual animation of 100 boxes, depending on the x-position of the mousepointer. If you click anywhere in [...]

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Thinkfree Office Mobile Android Edition will support viewing and editing of Powerpoint

August 12, 2009

Thinkfree announced that the Android version of their Java based office solution will support viewing and editing of Powerpoint documents. While the product is expected to be released in Q4/2009, OEM/ODM, telcos, operators and device manufacturers are welcome to inquire the company for the Android office version.

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Google sends out invitations for Google Wave Developer Preview

August 12, 2009

It looks like Google is sending out more invitations for the Google Wave Developer Preview program. I got an invitation today, and have to admit that the user interface looks very clean and nice. I’ve been testing with Safari 4.x, and  Wave doesn’t run into major problems with the browser. I’ve read that some people had [...]

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