eBay users can now use a jazzy new interface for making shopping on eBay more fun and effective thanks to Cooqy, an OpenLaszlo application. See Ryan Stewart's ZDNet blog entry for more information.

Well, OpenLaszlo 3.3 just hit the street. This release started out as a minor update to our 3.2 release in March: an opportunity to fix a few regressions and to polish up some of the new features in 3.2. Most of the internal team is absorbed with Legals, the multi-runtime release coming later in the year, so we haven't expected much motion on the 3.x series.

Along the way, though, two things happened that turned this into a more significant release. First, we received a raft of documentation improvements from John Sundman, gonzo author and OpenLaszlo's doc guy. Second, and most exciting, the community really stepped up with a number of useful incubator contributions and platform bug fixes.

The release notes tell the full story, but here are some highlights:

+ new event/handler syntax documented
+ numerous bugs fixed for datacombobox
+ vslider (S. Wagner)
+ time validator (L. Ritossa)
+ view with customizable border (B. Erickson)
+ many improvements to tooltip manager (D.Kim)
+ french translation of dguide (M. Duchene)
+ lzc.bat files fixed in windows distribution

Thanks, everyone, for helping to make this a bigger release than we expected!

We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 3.3 is available now! You can download it here: http://www.openlaszlo.org/oldownload.

OpenLaszlo 3.3 contains primarily bug fixes and many new contributions and bug fixes from the OpenLaszlo community. OpenLaszlo 3.3 also introduces a French translation of the documentation, as well as a number of ongoing documentation improvements. You can view the complete list of bug fixes and tasks completed in OpenLaszlo here:

A preview of some of the features includes:
+ A new textalign attribute for gridtext, contributed by Luca Ritossa
+ The datepicker can now be set to not drag, contributed by Bruce Cummins
+ The compiler supports a video object, which is one step towards supporting streaming video
+ Improvements to the gradient drawing calls in pie charts, contributed by Sebastian Barthelmess
+ A vertical slider contribution in the incubator from Sebastian Wagner
+ A horizontal split pane and autocomplete combobox in the incubator contributed by Daniel Kim
+ A view with a customizable border, in the incubator, contributed by Brad Erickson
+ A time validator based contributed by Luca Ritossa, built on the validator utilities contributed previously by Togawa Manabu
+ Numerous bug fixes to datacombobox
+ A corrected lzc.bat file for the Windows distribution

As always, feedback and contributions are welcome! Please report any issues using the JIRA bug tracking system.