Laszlo and Flex
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- monkeyshine
I'm researching Flex and my developer co-worker mentioned laszlo as a comparison. What's the difference between the two? And for Flex, why not just use Ajax? Doesn't Ajax render much fo Flex obsolete (i.e., page refresh)?
- monkeyshine0
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- mikotondria20
Actually, after years of Flash authoring, I took the plunge into Laszlo today, and despite being slightly dubious about downloading a 500M java SDK etc, and installing a Tomcat apache server on my machine to do the compiling and authoring, it seems to be pretty easy to pick up - all you data is totally seperate from the presentation, and the xml/JS type language is simple and actually reminds me of the XAML thingy that was in the video on Sparkle... Got a good client to learn this quickly for, too - its got a way to go before I think the majority of Flashers will be knocking out RIAs left and right, but it's coming...
Laszlo can do persistent connections and the like, but compiles all your high-level goodness into a .swf, which obviously if far more portable than the rag-tag collection of JS/Browser dependencies that give us all heartburn at the moment.
I like it.