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Rich Internet Applications

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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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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Taxango – German online tax software built with OpenLaszlo

May 26, 2009

There’s a new OpenLaszlo application online in Germany: Taxango, an online income tax return calculator and tax declaration tool for employees in Germany.
 
A nice application with a stylish design, skinned components and animated transitions in the process of filling out the various form fields. Reminds me of what H&R Block has been doing with OpenLaszlo [...]

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Eclipse4SL – Open Source Eclipse tool for Microsoft Silverlight

April 16, 2009

If you haven’t had heard of Eclipse4SL (Eclipse for Silverlight), that’s an open source extension for Eclipse for Microsoft Silverlight development.
“The purpose of this project [Eclipse4SL] is the creation of open source tools integrated with the Eclipse development platform that enable Java developers to use the Eclipse platform to create applications that run on the Microsoft [...]

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OpenLaszlo Flash9 runtime ready for production

April 15, 2009

Last week the OpenLaszlo team announced official support of the new Flash9 runtime! That means, OpenLaszlo supports Flash8, Ajax/DHTML and Flash9 as runtimes for use in production. The first large OpenLaszlo application utilizing the Flash9 runtime is the g.ho.st (Global Hosted Operating System).

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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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Adobe Flash strongest RIA platform in 2009

February 26, 2009

Based on the what I observed in the rich Internet application (RIA) business in the last 5 years, Adobe Flash is a clear winner among the multiple available browser-based runtime environments. Adobe has effectively executed a move from a once proprietary ActionScript language to an open standards based ActionScript3 language (ActionScript3 and the ECMA4 draft), [...]

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OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.1 released by Laszlo and the OpenLaszlo team

February 21, 2009

The OpenLaszlo team announced the 4.2.0.1 release of the OpenLaszlo server today. The release fixes a number of critical bugs for the DHTML and SWF9 runtime. With the new release deployment of OpenLaszlo applications utilizing the new SWF9 runtime can expected to be even more stable. I expect to see announcement of more applications deployed [...]

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