Hi Mike, I was working quite a bit long with trying to site using OpenLaszlo. (close to one year)
At first, I was excited the possibility of having dynamic flash at my disposal using opensource tech ( no license fee), and for the first time I can skip learning actionScript. Fast forward to today, I found that Laszlo has its strength and weakness. I found the Geert blog plus several responses summarized them pretty well. I think the best way is to combined several technologies and make them work. My approach is to do the hybrid way. Laszlo is good at creating web 2.0 application, but weak at creating complex animation. I use OL to be the manager and use Flash Actionscript for heavy animation. Since Laszlo can easily load any valid swf, this proven to be my winning combination. In addition to that, I use RubyOnRails to produce the html and generate the parameters to be passed into Laszlo. For example on my still work in progress website (http://newavenue.net). While all of the menu and some minor animation is handled by laszlo, I used Macromedia tools to generate more complex animation. Then I have programmed it using ruby on rails passed the flashparam that later is used to by laszlo to decided which animation to load. In summary: - Laszlo is good for data intensive application and not good at creating heavy animation. - Macromedia Flash/ Actionscript is best on handling complex animation, but difficult to create web application ( no object oriented,...) - RubyonRails is an excellent glue that integrate both of them. My next experiment is working on data intensive laszlo web application. I hope my approach still working against the heavy XML /REST heavy apps. Just my $0.02 Leon Yeh Michael Pence wrote: I recall Geert Bevin had a great write-up of some of the issues he > had, good and bad, in developing with Laszlo. I have Googled, but > cannot find this. Does anyone know the article I am talking about? > > I don't want to just present a sunny-side-up view of Laszlo for the > Ruby on Rails conference. Would anyone like to share your list of > gotchas with OL that you would think that someone should be aware of > before jumping in? Any non-trivial platform has its issues, I just > want to do the conference attendees the service of presenting a > balanced view. > > Thanks in advance. > > Mike Pence > ___________________ _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
