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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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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, 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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Driving RIA plug-in market share with multi-runtime support

July 15, 2009

Looking at the state of rich Internet applications in 2009 we can clearly see that proprietary plug-ins are getting more acceptance in the market. While people seemed to keep bashing Macromedia/Adobe for their proprietary Flash plug-in back in the early RIA days (2001-2006, and I had my share in the bashing), the situation has much [...]

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The Timeline – from VideoWorks in 1985 to Silverlight and JavaFX

July 7, 2009

I remember my first contact with the Flash authoring tool UI around 2000, when I watched a class of multimedia students learn how create animations and interactive browser based applications, and I thought: “What a crazy way of creating applications!” How little did I know at that time about the achievements the timeline based user [...]

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OpenLaszlo 4.4 released – video components improved, full screen support for SWFx

July 1, 2009

The OpenLaszlo team has announced the 4.4 release of the OpenLaszlo platform. There are many goodies in this release, an impressive number of 180 bugs have been fixed, mainly for the DHTML runtime. That’s good, since there has been a lot of worked focused on the SWF9 runtime until early 2009, and the DHTML runtime [...]

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Adobe afraid of communicating with us, or when will Flash Player bug FP-40 be fixed?

June 23, 2009

It’s stunning to see how much companies manage to upset people using their technology by not replying to questions. One of the best examples in the RIA space right now is Adobe’s communication around the Flash FP-40 bug. Flash is a nice technology, but why is it so difficult for the company to talk to [...]

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