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JavaFX

Animated focus transition in rich Internet applications and interactive TV

July 15, 2009

Once of the neat features of OpenLaszlo is the animated focus transition when you tab through the visual elements of an application. Here’s a small demo showing. Click into the application, and press the tab key to see the focus move from one focusable element to the next:

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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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Mixed runtime applications in JavaFX – embedding Ajax or Flash through JWebPane?

May 24, 2009

RIA runtimes are getting more complex with every new technology available in the market. Building “pure Ajax” applications in many cases already means that you’ll embed a SWF movie file into your page for audio playback or video functionality. Technologies with support for multiple runtimes – like OpenLaszlo – create APIs for integrating applications deployed [...]

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JavaFX 1.1 with JavaFX Mobile enters RIA market

February 15, 2009

In what seemed to be surprise to some of us Sun released JavaFX 1.1, which includes JavaFX Mobile. Long expected, much awaited, Java makes a come-back on mobile devices with “JavaFX to-go”. JavaFX 1.1 can be dowloaded here, and some more information (videos, tutorials) are available on this page. As expected, the company announced a number [...]

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JavaFX road map – will Sun open source JavaFX?

December 31, 2008

Since the announcement of JavaFX at JavaONE 2007 I wondered if Sun will at some point decide to open source the JavaFX technology. In the past years Sun has turned into one of the strongest supporters of the open source software development model. Probably one of the best decisions Sun’s management ever made, and the [...]

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Sun releases JavaFX 1.0

December 6, 2008

This week Sun released version 1.0 of JavaFX technology. After the initial announcement of JavaFX at Java ONE 2007 we’ve been waiting long to see the release of JavaFX.

Through my work at Laszlo and David Temkin I had heard about Chris Oliver’s F3 project. F3 looked very promising, and I thought it was amazing to see what [...]

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