RE: Laszlo decision to open source pays a dividend

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I've been looking at Laszlo for a couple of weeks now, and, especially with the price tag, it is very attractive.   If they did support greater than Flash 5, they would probably also need to update their code to take advantage of the additional features.  I guess now that its open source, someone else could do it, or they could even take it create something else besides Flash if that made sense.  So far, the thing I like the least about it is the lack of a WYSIWIG editor for it.  Setting up a form, for instance, can get very tedious when you have to specify X,Y coordinates for the placement of each field.  Everything is written in XML, so I also would like to find some extensions for homesite+ to improve it for doing this if I decide to actually use it for something serious.
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From: dave   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:17   PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Laszlo decision to open source   pays a dividend

they will play in newer flash players but   u dont have all the new goodies too incorporate into it that were released   post flash 5
personally, i think some of the components in laszlo are nicer   but connecting to services not so pretty and thats a HUGE deal with RIA's.   Flex is just mind blowing easy to connect to a web service or data and i mean   easy (even i can do it). And building it with the flex builder makes it   basically childs play.
The other big difference is the finally output size   of the movie. There are tools out there that were made just to take a swf and   reduce its size but the last versions of flash really compresses the heck   outta it so a movie in flash 5 is bout 2x the size of same movie in flash   mx.

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From: Jeffry Houser   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:  Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:31:03   -0400

>  Are you saying Laszlo won't support features   introduced in Flash players
>after Flash5?
>  Or are   you saying that Laszlo produced SWFs won't play in a player
>greater   than Flash5?  I would have assumed the players are backward   
>compatible.
>  
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