With the increasing focus on Ajax/DHTML - going in hand with nice new HTML5
features - the evolving W3C standards are going to have a strong influence on
the LZX APIs in future versions of OpenLaszlo. Until now SWFx and AS2/3 have
been the runtime providing many more features for OpenLaszlo than the browsers'
JS engines. That's changing right now, and the question is: How is OpenLaszlo
going to incorporate the HTML5 APIs into LZX? Take Flash SharedObject
(https://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/SharedObject.html)
and W3C WebStorage (http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/) as an example: How are
we going to create APIs providing those features across runtimes?
If there similar functionalities in SWFx and HTML5/W3C standards, are we going
to create a common API for - using the example of local storage - key-value
pairs in DHTML using WebStorage, and duplicating that behavior in SWFx using
SharedObject functionality? Or is the focus going to be on open standard based
features which will be accessible from within SWFs through SWF->JavaScript
calls?
A powerful feature would be the capability to define the runtime environment
for a method/script as an attribute to the method or script. Imagine code like
this inside a SWFx runtime app:
<method name="storeNote" runtime="javascript" args="id,title,body">
// Some JavaScript code using the WebStorage API to store a note
// This method would be turned into a JavaScript function inside the browser
// Any call to this method would be passed from the SWF app to the JS
function
</method>
If the same app is compiled as DHTML, passing of method calls would not be
necessary. I'd be interested in hearing what you think, or what your ideas are
for OL apps using many of the new JS/HTML5/W3C features.
- Raju
