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Subject:Re: Are you familiar with Laszlo? From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:24:03 -0700 (PDT)
David Neeley wrote:
> A very interesting technology, now open-sourced. If you
> want browser-based applications from relatively simple
> scripting, see
>http://www.laszlosystems.com
> There are some demos on the site you may find quite illuminating.
No, I hadn't heard of Laszlo, but of course I went and looked it up...
It's a tool for building Flash web applications, and a Tomcat servlet
container for serving them. I wonder if their open-sourcing of Laszlo
was an effort to get ahead of these announcements of similar tools from
Macromedia:
The Laszlo management team does have some former Macromedia folks on
board.
Laszlo is also attempting to launch a new buzzword: "rich Internet
application (RIA)." The word Flash barely appears on their site. LOL -
they're trying to call it anything but Flash!
I couldn't run any of the demos - I just got a big empty box that said
"Click here to download plugin." But I don't want no plugins... :-)
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