[Laszlo-announce] Coming Soon: OpenLaszlo to Support DHTML

[Amy Muntz]

OpenLaszlo is pleased to announce that DHTML is coming soon as an  
alternative runtime. Now you can decide whether to deploy your  
OpenLaszlo application using Flash or DHTML.

Check out the new http://www.openlaszlo.org web site, where you'll  
find the OpenLaszlo LZpiX application that demonstrates this exciting  
new direction.

These pages may also be of interest:
http://www.openlaszlo.org/advancedajax: OpenLaszlo, The Advanced Ajax  
Application Platform page
http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Legals_Project_Plan: The Project Plan for  
supporting DHTML (very detailed)

We are very excited about the future direction of OpenLaszlo and our  
commitment to support both Flash and DHTML as target runtimes. This  
is a great opportunity to get involved and help shape the future of  
the OpenLaszlo platform.

And, for those of you who haven't seen it yet, the full text of the  
press release is below.

Best Regards,
Amy Muntz
OpenLaszlo Project Manager
amuntz at openlaszlo.org


Laszlo Systems Announces Plans to Extend OpenLaszlo Platform to  
Support Delivery of Web 2.0 Applications in Browsers Without Flash™

- Advanced Ajax Application Development Company to Demonstrate New  
Native Browser Support at O'Reilly ETech Event -

ETech 2006, SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 7, 2006) - At the O'Reilly  
Emerging Technology Conference, Laszlo Systems today announced the  
planned extension of its advanced Ajax application development  
platform, OpenLaszlo, to support the delivery of applications in  
browsers with or without a Flash plug-in. By the end of this year,  
developers using OpenLaszlo will have the option to deploy their  
applications using either Flash or Dynamic HTML (DHTML), an open- 
standard technology built into most Web browsers. Laszlo executives  
will preview the company's DHTML deployment capabilities at the  
conference with a live demonstration, which is also accessible on the  
open source community site, www.openlaszlo.org.

Today's announcement reinforces Laszlo's commitment to the Open Ajax  
community, which it established last month along with IBM, Oracle,  
BEA, RedHat, Yahoo!, Google and others. The extension of OpenLaszlo,  
already open source, to support not only Flash but also DHTML will  
give developers the option to deploy applications using a fully open  
software stack. This natural evolution capitalizes on the  
architecture of OpenLaszlo, designed from its inception to be able to  
support multiple client runtimes across computers and consumer devices.

"OpenLaszlo has always been independent of Flash from a developer's  
perspective," said David Temkin, founder and chief technology  
officer, Laszlo Systems. "The use of Flash to run OpenLaszlo  
applications was a pragmatic choice when we started Laszlo in 2000  
because it was the only ubiquitous and consistent runtime option at  
that time. But since then, DHTML has evolved as an open standard and  
is now a viable alternative to Flash to run many OpenLaszlo  
applications."

Steve Ciesinski, chairman and chief executive officer of Laszlo  
Systems, added, "Our vision from the start was to enable compelling  
applications across different runtimes and consumer devices,  
including mobile phones and TV set-tops, and our plans to support  
DHTML are consistent with that vision."

Now in version 3.1, the OpenLaszlo platform uses Asynchronous  
JavaScript and XML (Ajax) in a highly evolved mark-up language,  
enabling development of Web-based applications that are as rich and  
robust as traditional client-based software programs. In contrast to  
more recent "Ajax toolkits," OpenLaszlo offers a sophisticated  
framework and a comprehensive set of components that are abstracted  
from client runtime software, thereby dramatically reducing the cost  
and complexity of application development. OpenLaszlo has already  
been adopted across various market sectors, including enterprise,  
consumer, government and education, and has over 125,000 downloads to  
date.

Laszlo Systems' partners, IBM and Roundarch, commented on the  
importance of the OpenLaszlo native browser support news:

"Laszlo has always been an innovator in the rich Internet application  
development experience, which makes them a great community partner  
for Eclipse Foundation framework as well as with the Open Ajax  
technology collaboration," said David Boloker, chief technology  
officer of Emerging Internet Technologies, IBM Software Group. "We  
welcome this announcement as it gives users of the OpenLaszlo  
platform the choice of deploying their applications on DHTML or Flash."

"The advent of the term Ajax has drawn attention to the unstoppable  
transformation of the Web into an on-demand application delivery  
environment, where rich user experiences are now accessible by simply  
entering a URL into any browser," said Charles Fiesel, director at  
Roundarch, and recognized Ajax evangelist. "The extension of Laszlo's  
powerful and mature Web application platform to support DHTML is a  
welcome development for the Ajax community."

Online Information and Demonstration

To learn more about OpenLaszlo and to see a live demonstration of a  
sample OpenLaszlo application being run on both Flash and DHTML,  
please visit www.openlaszlo.org. Training and support for OpenLaszlo,  
including tutorials on Laszlo's dynamic language, LZX, is available  
at www.laszlosystems.com.

About Laszlo Systems
Laszlo Systems is the original developer of OpenLaszlo, the leading  
open source platform for building and deploying Web 2.0 applications.  
OpenLaszlo technology has been widely adopted by application and  
service providers in the consumer, enterprise, education and  
government markets. Laszlo Systems provides updates, training and  
support for OpenLaszlo and offers rich-experience web-based digital  
life applications such as Laszlo Mail, built on OpenLaszlo. For more  
information about San Mateo, Calif.-based Laszlo Systems, visit  
www.laszlosystems.com.
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