[Semi-OT] Interesting article

[Trevor DeVore]

On Aug 8, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Peter T. Evensen wrote:

> What I don't understand is why is Laszlo and Flex better than using  
> Flash?  Flash lets you lay things out graphically. Flex and Laszlo  
> are text descriptions that are compiled into flash.  To me, it is  
> easier to layout a screen than to try to describe it in text.

OpenLaszlo is a powerful framework for developing applications using  
the SWF format.  My impression was that it is a robust framework that  
allows the developer to focus on their web app logic and let the  
Laszlo framework handle the presentation.

Take a look at their ten minute demo (which is quite good) for more  
info:

<http://www.laszlosystems.com/lps/laszlo-in-ten-minutes/>

It seemed to me that the philosophy of the Laszlo people at their  
presentation was this:  web app developers spend most of their time  
writing code and not much time in the Flash GUI and most of them have  
a preferred text editor.  Their framework takes care of a lot of the  
transition animation and other niceties that the developer might want  
so it is pretty straightforward to just code these things in.


-- 
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com