I thought Laszlo developers might enjoy seeing the Ghost 'Global Hosted Operating SysTem' - a web desktop/operating system with a pure-Laszlo client (plus some iFrames) - a proof-of-concept is now live at http://G.ho.st and we are publicly launching in April. I am posting this to the -user and -dev lists (apologies for the duplication but both seem relevant) to get feedback on whether people would like us to contribute some of our components and whether people might be interested in us publishing their Laszlo programs on our desktop.
We might be interested in donating some components if there is serious interest in incorporating them into Laszlo or into the incubator and are looking for feedback. Components include (a) internationalization (b) our own look & feel (c) misc. new components or improvements e.g.: * The auto-complete used to type in the country (choose Free registration, non-US address and start typing your country - it performs way better than the combo) * Our text element which is internationalized and can instantly switch language and can also update its font, font size and font color based on global preferences (try the demo account, right-click on the background and play with the Preferences) * Our window which has different resources to the Laszlo window and extra functionality like the minimize/maximize buttons. * Other components like button etc. etc. which support our internationalization and our own look & feel. * Components for forms with immediate validation of individual fields as in our user registration form We are trying to work out how best to contribute these components given that we would love them to be fully incorporated into Laszlo but I'm not sure we have someone available to document these components to the Laszlo standards and to provide support... Conversely we are wondering if Laszlo developers see Ghost as a fun channel for publishing widgets and applications they create... Feedback welcome Zvi
