Geert Bevin: Wrong assumptions about OpenLaszlo

In "Wrong assumptions about OpenLaszlo," Geert addresses some misconceptions people have about OpenLaszlo, including support for multiple runtimes and the use of XML for declaring the UI elements - pointing out that people complain about OpenLaszlo's use of XML, but rarely complain about XHTML being XML as well.
... about OpenLaszlo's support for multiple runtimes... Contrary to Java it doesn't intend to be Write Once Run Anywhere The multiple runtimes however allow you to have exactly the same architecture for building different applications or different parts of the same application. Some things are better done in DHTML (internationalization, accessibilty, native feel, font rendering, execution performance, memory footprint) and others are better done in Flash (video, music, multimedia, rotated fonts, high amount of animations, ...). You can reuse a lot of your code and most of it does work across runtimes, which is a nice benefit. I encourage everyone to try out OpenLaszlo's DHTML engine, it's quite impressive even at this first stable release status.

This brings me straight to Flash support and the apparent fact that Flex and Laszlo are at least on equals footing here. Some people actually seem to think that Flex has the edge since Adobe controls Flash too. In reality however, Flex only runs on Flash 9 while OpenLaszlo runs on Flash 7, 8 and 9 and does proper optimizations for each specific version.


Threaded replies
· Geert Bevin: Wrong assumptions about OpenLaszlo by Joseph Ottinger on Fri May 11 11:28:01 EDT 2007
· Re: Geert Bevin: Wrong assumptions about OpenLaszlo by Ilya Sterin on Fri May 11 15:57:18 EDT 2007
· Re: Geert Bevin: Wrong assumptions about OpenLaszlo by Ilya Sterin on Fri May 11 15:57:55 EDT 2007
· Which to start with by Matt Giacomini on Sat May 12 00:35:39 EDT 2007
· Re: Which to start with by marc schipperheyn on Sat May 12 06:56:15 EDT 2007
· Re: Which to start with by James Ward on Sat May 12 11:49:52 EDT 2007
· Re: Which to start with by Matt Giacomini on Sat May 12 14:33:45 EDT 2007