OpenLaszlo does have cursor management, we just hadn’t ported that code to DHTML at the time the demo was built. Rest assured that cursors will change as you expect in the final version!

- E.g. the cursor doesn’t change when its over fields, and the page itself gives no feedback that an event has occurred - e.g., click on the serarch button, eventually the search goes ahead, but the button doesn’t depress. Hyperlinks don’t change display, or the mouse cursor when hovered over.

That kind of feedback is vital to a good UI, and ideally it should respond largely as a windows app does, given that the vast majority of people use windows..

Moreover,i noticed that there are two strange cold fragments which are neither in the nor …

anybody helps me??thank u.

Frans - Roadmap is here: http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Legals_Project_Plan. Short answer: we’re expecting to be final by the end of the year, and that release is likely to be called 4.0.

Jeff - yes, emulating in DHTML is straightforward on browsers that support the Canvas tag. Elsewhere, there are workarounds (for Win IE, via VML). There are some semantic differences to contend with (I’ve read that the entire bounds of a canvas tag capture mouse clicks), but it’s pretty close. SVG, as you point out, is another option, but with narrower browser support.