OpenLazlo 3.0.2 review

OpenLaszlo is the leading open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications on the World Wide Web Here are some key features of "OpenLazlo": · SOLO deployment option: OpenLaszlo 3.

License: GPL OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Laszlo Systems, Inc. Price: $0.00 Updated: 15 Aug 2005

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OpenLaszlo is the leading open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications on the World Wide Web

Here are some key features of "OpenLazlo":
SOLO deployment option: OpenLaszlo 3.0 introduces two ways to deploy your application: SOLO or with the OpenLaszlo Server. Applications that provide data integration via XML over HTTP may be deployed SOLO (Standalone OpenLaszlo Output) from any HTTP Web server. This capability dramatically simplifies deployment and reduces serving costs. Applications that require data integration via SOAP, XML-RPC or Java-RPC, or that require persistent connection capabilities or run-time media transcoding are deployed with the OpenLaszlo Server within J2EE or Java Servlet Container environments.
Unicode Support: OpenLaszlo 3.0 introduces support for unicode, enabling OpenLaszlo applications to be localized to most international language character sets. Unicode is supported in both LZX source code and in XML data.
Drawing API: The new OpenLaszlo Drawing API implements a subset of the whatwg.org drawing API standard. This API enables the creation of circles, ovals, fills and lines and provides the foundation for charting and graphing components.
Dynamic Libraries: A dynamic library is a portion of a program that can be loaded after the main application execution file has loaded. The goal for dynamic libraries is to reduce the initial download size of a Laszlo application. This is important because initial download size (including all requests that precede initial user interaction) is used to evaluate web applications. Reducing the initial download size has the additional benefits of reducing the time to first interaction (although there are other ways of doing this), and of reducing bandwidth costs in the case where an optional feature of the application is not used.
Performance Optimizations: Additional optimizations take advantage of the unique capabilities of the Flash 6 and Flash 7 players to minimize application size and increase execution speed.
Platform name change: The platform name has changed from 'Laszlo Presentation Server' to 'OpenLaszlo' to reflect the new SOLO deployment capability, and to underscore the open source license covering the OpenLaszlo project.

What's New:
SOLO deployment
Smaller file sizes (using internal gzip compression)
Dynamic libraries
Unicode support
Optimized for Flash Player versions 6 and 7
Settable timeouts
Drawing API
Client fonts
Resizeable canvas
Integration with browser JavaScript
Support for browser back button
Support for ("right click") context menu
Support for mouse wheel
Text maxlength and restriction
Debugging improvements
Performance enhancements
Separate Designer and Deployer guides
The name of the product is now "OpenLaszlo".

Requirements:
Any web browser with Flash 5 or later installed.