http://weblog.openlaszlo.org asynchronous javascript since before it was cool Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:26:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OpenLaszlo 4.2 Beta follows OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 as the next build from the trunk development branch. The primary goal of this release is to provide beta-level support for SWF9 features as indicated below. ... http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2008/09/openlaszlo-42-beta-1-now-available/ OpenLaszlo 4.2alpha is the first build in the SWF9 support release path. This release provides alpha-level support for SWF9 features: LZPIX, Weather and Component Sampler work with SWF9 SWF9 installation packaged with Flex compiler databinding and basic replication "implicit this" support Text, fonts, scrolling and selection APIs Keyboard and mouse events Multi-frame resource support Image loading Resource Stretching Script Tag ... http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2008/08/openlaszlo-42alpha-now-available/ Here is a nice screencast introduction to using the NetBeans IDE Plugin for OpenLaszlo. You can get the plug-in at https://nbopenlaszlosupport.dev.java.net/ http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2008/08/introduction-to-openlaszlo-and-netbeans-ide/ OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 is a major release bringing full support for both the DHTML/Ajax and the SWF/Flash platforms. It also includes over 800 bug fixes and a significantly improved documentation suite. OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 has been fully-qualified across the following browser/platform combinations: Safari3/OSX, Firefox2/OSX, Internet Explorer 7/WinXP, Firefox 2/WinXP, and Firefox 2/Linux. ... http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2008/07/openlaszlo-411-now-available/ If you're trying to get the most out of OpenLaszlo, consider taking one of our training classes on OpenLaszlo. We've just scheduled sessions here in San Mateo for both OpenLaszlo Fundamentals (starting on September 11) and our Building OpenLaszlo Applications (starting on September 8). Sessions in Toronto and Hyderabad are ... http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2008/07/openlaszlo-training-classes/ Here's a preview to our upcoming releases. OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 is coming later this week. Our intent is to provide a quick turnaround on bugs reported by the Community. Some of the more important bugs that have been resolved include: LPP-6586: POST not working with setQueryParams() LPP-6619: LzTextElement not resizing on ... http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2008/07/openlaszlo-411-is-coming-and-more/ There has been a lot of buzz about Google's improved flash indexing. While this initiative may be helpful for extracting and locating text and media content in SWF files, it probably won't help much with indexing structure. There's no real standard for 'deep linking' into Flash applications. ... http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2008/07/flash-indexing-and-rich-applications/ We just had to share this with you. Last night, we passed a major milestone in the history of the OpenLaszlo project. Yesterday, we passed the 500,000 copies of downloaded. Half a million. That's a big number. And it's going to continue to grow because you folks are making OpenLaszlo a ... http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2008/07/500000-openlaszlo-downloads/ We are proud to announce the release of OpenLaszlo 4.1. OpenLaszlo 4.1 is a major release bringing full support for both the DHTML/Ajax and the SWF/Flash platforms. It also includes over 800 bug fixes and a significantly improved documentation suite. OpenLaszlo 4.1 has been fully-qualified across the following browser/platform combinations: ... http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2008/06/now-available-41-dhtml-recommended-release/ Dustin's Software Development Cogitations and Speculations: An OpenLaszlo RSS Reader Implementation: In this blog entry, I demonstrate generation of a simple RSS Reader using OpenLaszlo. The world certainly doesn't need another RSS reader, so the purpose of this blog entry is to demonstrate some of the easy-to-use features of OpenLaszlo. The ... http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2008/06/nice-article-on-building-an-rss-reader-in-openlaszlo/