AJAX Special Hazard Precautions
Anyone who tries to tell you that AJAX is a "new approach to web applications" is just rebranding old technology and hyping buzzwords, not engineering software in the real world. Because of browser and...
View ArticleFlex is an Expensive Knock-Off of Laszlo, but OpenLaszlo is Free
Flex is outrageously priced, and its future is in Flux now that Adobe is going to buy Macromedia. Flex was inspired by Laszlo (in spite of the fact that Tim O'Reilly is confused and mistakenly thinks...
View ArticleConstraints and Prototypes in Garnet and Laszlo
Garnet is an advanced user interface development environment written in Common Lisp, developed by Brad Meyers (the author of the article). I worked for Brad on the Garnet project at the CMU CS...
View ArticleOpenLaszlo is more Portable and Prettier than AJAX
In the Slashdot discussion of "The Current State of Ajax", Henry Minsky posts: OpenLaszlo is more portable (Score:3, Informative) by hqm (49964) on Friday August 19, @03:23PM (#13358719) OpenLaszlo is...
View ArticleAJAX is old NeWS, Laszlo is non-toxic AJAX
AJAX is a new buzzword for old (but not bad) ideas. Don't take this as anti-AJAX. That kind of architecture is great, but it's the notion that the new AJAX buzzword describes new ideas that annoys me....
View ArticleOpenLaszlo Makes Full Blown AJAX Apps on Flash
The fact that Flash is commonly used for ads, and that those ads annoy everyone and cause many people to hate Flash, doesn't detract from the high quality user interfaces that you can build with it, if...
View ArticleApplying XML to Describing User Interface Layouts and Behavior and Constraints.
This is a message I sent to Paul Haberli a several years ago, brainstorming some ideas for an XML based scripting language. More recently, after discovering OpenLaszlo, I ran across this email, and it...
View ArticleITConversations Interview with David Temkin about OpenLaszlo
Here's an interesting audio interview with Dave Temkin, CTO of Laszlo Systems. They cover some important topics and Dave makes some great points that explain why OpenLaszlo is so exciting. They...
View ArticleWhat is OpenLaszlo, and what's it good for?
OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for developing user friendly web based applications, which work identically across all popular browsers and platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, IE, Firefox, Safari,...
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