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Laszlo Systems Open Sources Rich Client Platform

Posted by timothy on from the now-let's-see-it-get-used dept.

cying writes "Today, Laszlo Systems released their entire rich internet applications platform (standards-based, zero-install, all-singing / all-dancing) under the CPL. Check out their cool Laszlo-powered web site and see some rockin' groovy demos. Also, read the press release, news, and blogs; download the goods; and join the community."

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  1. Initial knee-jerk negative reaction: suppressed by mcasaday · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Take what I say here with your usual Slashdot-comment grain of salt because I've taken only a brief look at this thing.

    From the download page:

    Why Laszlo?

    Deliver a new generation of rich Internet applications for today's Web:
    • Develop in XML and JavaScript (Try it now!)
    • Deploy via any Java servlet container or J2EE application server
    • Display in any Web browser enabled with the Flash 5 player
    • Open Source platform, free for development and deployment

    Okay, so this is just a way to great Flash GUI's. My initial reaction was "BLEH! I can do that already with Flash."

    What gave me pause was that this was a impressively sophisticated way to create Flash GUI's using Open Source tech. Macromedia's expensive authoring tool is not required. Everything is driven by XML+JavaScript from the server side.

    So, yeah, it's just a server-side Flash generator. It's also one of the more sophisticated Open Source Flash creation tools I've seen yet. So there's that.

  2. Standards based... by ptaff · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ...rich internet applications platform (standards-based, zero-install, all-singing / all-dancing)


    Last time I checked, Flash was not a web standard in the true sense, was still a proprietary technolgy and you couldn't redistribute the player (so it can't be bundled by your favorite distribution).

    Pretending that this product is standards-based is like saying MSOffice is standards-based because it can import/export XML.

    Are we to expect a future release supporting SVG - as the backend seems to be modeled around XML/ECMAScript? That'd be most impressive - and web engine friendly, at last.

    Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?