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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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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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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:
Google [...]

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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 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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KooshBalls for OpenLaszlo revisited – CSS transform based rotation with Webkit

August 3, 2009

Don Hopkins implemented a Koosh Balls Generator in OpenLaszlo’s LZX language back in 2005. I wondered what the performance of the application would be like with the OpenLaszlo DHTML runtime in Safari 4.x.
Right now there’s still a small bug with rotation and Safari in OpenLaszlo trunk. I tested with a patched version on my machine. [...]

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Webkit CSS based 3d transforms applied to OpenLaszlo DHTML

July 17, 2009

The Webkit team has taken JavaScript/CSS to the next level again. They’ve announced support for CSS based 3d transforms for Webkit Nightly Builds on OS X Leopard:
WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS. This is a [...]

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Unleash the power of JavaScript with Mozilla TraceMonkey

March 12, 2009

In February Mozilla has taken a huge step into a more feature-rich JavaScript RIA world: Firefox 3.1 and future versions contain the new TraceMonkey just-in-time JavaScript compiler. But before we go into technical details, let’s listen to what Mark Beltzner, the Mozilla Phenomenologist has to say about the Mozilla mission in an interview with BetaNews:
“The [...]

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