How Else to Interact with Browser (was Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin)

[Dave Cragg]

On 3 Nov 2006, at 22:06, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Flash is a terribly interesting DELIVERY platform for this class of  
> apps but
> the development tools for creating such apps suck big time. There  
> is clearly
> an opportunity here for a way to build an app in Rev and then  
> compile it to
> Flash and deliver it entirely via the browser. Similarly, there is  
> a great
> opportunity for doing the same thing and producing AJAX output.  
> This is the
> direction taken by tools like Laszlo and Flex, which essentially use
> JavaScript and XML as their linguistic platforms.

Just a small correction (or perhaps I misread this). Flex produces  
Flash ouput (as swf files). I thought Laszlo did the same, but  
perhaps it has options for AJAX output too.

Cheers
Dave