Re: Laszlo

Hi Paul,

I don't know what's going on, all our posts contained no text, but only
the trailing disclaimer (I read the list from the gmane news gateway).
However I could read the important parts from Martin's replies.

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:43:31 -0400, Boos, Paul M. wrote:

> Thanks for the links Martin.  Is there any documentation for Bling?  I
> looked at the readme and it does indeed sound like where we want to go
> (from what it can tell me).  And Azax also seems to be a good bit on the
> right track - are there any pointers on how these are being integrated
> with Archetypes specifically?

I'd like to ask back some questions. As a Plone consultant and one of the
developers of KSS I certainly cannot offer any working capacity for your
suggested project in the next time, but I am rather motivated to
understand Laszlo technology better and maybe get new ideas to enhance KSS
and our existing Plone frameworks.

1. I've heard about Laszlo half a year ago first, but from the website one
gets the impression of a long success story. Is seems OpenLaszlo was
originally developed by Laszlo, Inc. and opensourced in 2004. Quote:
"OpenLaszlo is an XML-native foundation for building next generation Web
applications that increase customer retention, conversion and brand
loyalty." I see some big customer names mentioned, but is it possible to
actually get a list of existing websites that deploy OpenLaszlo? (Not the
commercial version.)

2. The website says OpenLaszlo is licensed under the Common Public License
Version 1.0, which is a license listed as GPL-incompatible by the GNU. Are
there plans to ever release the source under a license that is compatible
with the GMU GPL?

3. The website says: "OpenLaszlo programs are written in XML and
JavaScript and transparently compiled to Flash and soon DHTML." Does this
mean the generated websites run in Flash? If they can generate also AJAX
(DHTML) applications (so "soon" is already now) is it possible to see any
demo? I am asking this because all the demos of the website run in Flash
and from this I previously had the (perhaps false) impression that Laszlo
generates Flash output - and this was my main reason for not looking at
its further details at that time.

4. Is there any example of using OpenLaszlo with a python-based web
publishing framework? It seems (again, just based on the website) that the
current deployment is rather Java based so I'd be interested in specific
experience with python.

+1. Despite the name Laszlo which is a common Hungarian first name written
without accents, I see no connection to Hungary and no explanation on the
choice of name. This is just my private curiousity, which is not important
to get answered. 

Thanks in advance,


-- 
Balazs Ree



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