Although I have heard about and have even played around with the various online demos it wasn't until today that I realized Open Laszlo was something that needed to be taken serious. The realization came when I installed the SDK and Server-Side runtime engine on one of the servers here in my office such that we (meaning those of us working on various projects like LLUP, etc...) could all gain access to a sweet little app Russ conjured up over the weekend using none-other than... Open Laszlo.
At first take it just seems like Yet Another XML-based GUI Markup Language and as such my initial reaction was "we have XHTML, SVG, XUL, and XAML. Do we really need another client-side markup language to be productive?"
What I didn't realize was that, while the first bit is still true, its doesnt require Yet Another Client-Side Run-Time Engine. Instead it relies on Flash (6.0+), something we all have already, no matter the platform. And if by chance we don't, at between 200-300K and one-click installation its not exactly something that can be viewed as any sort of barrier to entry.
So while it does require a server side installation to get things up and running as soon as that's taken care of your pretty much home free and running everywhere. It's open source and from my initial scan of the markup it seems to be based on the "canvas" model and the elements seem to fit naturally within what you would expect so the barrier to entry for programmers is minimal, at best.
I'm still not 100% convinced that this is "THE" solution for declaritive XML-based client-side GUI development. But its definitely a lot more interesting than I first realized and might very well be worth a second look at some point in the future when I have more time to evaluate things further.
If and when I do, I'll fill you in on the details.
Cheers :)
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