Yes, I'd love to see that as well. I'm hoping for fully runtime
CSSable components with a CSS based styling and skinning approach.
That would give us a chance to zoom components in DHTML runtime and
SWFx runtime, making them much more usable for mobile devices. Memory
profile should be better as well, since wouldn't have to load a large
number of assets into the app.
But since nothing is perfect in life, I'd be happy to see any
improvement on the component side!
Raju
On Nov 12, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Max Carlson wrote:
Hi James,
I'd love to see what you've written! We're aware that the component
class model is aging and welcome collaboration from the community.
jamesr wrote:
Rami Ojares / AMG Oy wrote:
On Nov 11, 2009 1:19 AM, "Leonardo Mateo" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> That's not true, Flex is very powerful, thanks to ActionScript 3
and
> is a COMPLETE MISTAKE thinking that you have to use it only for
small
> and flashy things.
I don't wish to dispute that. I meant that it probably has more
GUIs and templates to get you started quickly. The downside being
vendor lock-in and being at the mercy of your software provider.
When the push comes to shove your best and ONLY documentation is
the source code. That applies to both commercial and open source
software as well as that tiny and most precious piece of software
you write yourself.
- Cheers
I would submit that open laszlo is an easier to learn and manage
language. I believe in the laszlo model, and choose it because of
that belief. However, several key concepts are missing from the
download you get from open laszlo itself. Things like drag and drop
and traits have been poorly defined if at all. The components
hierarchy is aging. I've written a complementary and more modern
hierarchy, one which i'd be happy to share with the community, if
it can tolerate incremental improvement in the documentation and
examples.
Laszlo is a view based language, like cocoa. It has not been
adequately utilized in the areas in which it excels most; this is
the root problem of the laszlo community at present, as i see it.
The premise is sound.
- james
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Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org
