OpenLaszlo 3.0 Announced

gse writes "The friendly folks at Laszlo Systems (of which I am one) have just announced the release of OpenLaszlo 3.0. Cool new features in this release: SOLO deployment (compile standalone .swf applications that don't need a proxy server), dynamically loadable libraries, a drawing API, and a bunch of optimizations. Info and downloads are at openlaszlo.org. (OpenLaszlo has been covered before on Slashdot.)"

Flash Applications don't learn

[Anonymous Coward]

I've yet to see a useful Flash MDI or desktop type application (like the http://openlaszlo.org/ [openlaszlo.org] demos) that was an improvement over a cleverly implemented HTML/javascript type application doing the same thing.

I suspose part of the problem is that the platform (Flash MX 2004 or whatever) doesn't have many useful IDE type tools for more serious development. Perhaps this OpenLaszlo will help, but I still think it's a mistake to implement anything more than a gimmiky or widgety type program with Flash. It never feels like a decent app!

Re:Interesting, trivia

[borsi]

Actually, Laszlo is a hungarian first name, but it can be used as last name :) (Yes, I'm from Hungary)

XUL is not a replacement

[Anonymous Coward]

Well since it's open source. You all can modify it to spit out anything you want, up to and including XUL.