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OpenLaszlo moves towards AJAX

The Flash development tool will soon have a DHTML output option. Read more »

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Why traditionalists should take Web developers seriously

There used to be a sharp distinction between application developers and Web developers. This made sense when technologies such as Perl/CGI, classic ASP, standard JSP, and PHP ruled the Web development roost. But this distinction is becoming less relevant. Read more »

RIFE with possibilities

Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »

Silverlight 2.0 offers paradigm shift from predecessor

A quick overview of what you'll find in the latest version of Silverlight. Read more »

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Build Web applications once, run everywhere with OpenLaszlo

OpenLaszlo provides a platform for building rich Internet applications that may mimic desktop application functionality. This article looks at OpenLaszlo's features, architecture, language, and development environment. Read more »

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Adobe: Silverlight is years behind Flash

Mike Downey, principal evangelist at Adobe, talks about RIAs and how good competition validates Adobe's move into the area. Downey then speaks on Silverlight and says that it is "years behind where the Flash Player is today". Read more »

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OpenLaszlo: Neutral ground for online developers

Laszlo Systems' OpenLaszlo environment makes it possible for Internet application coders to develop their applications once and run them on any of the top rich media platforms. The downside: it's using an outdated open source license whose terms are widely acknowledged as overreaching. Read more »

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'Internet van' turns 30

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, celebrates a nondescript converted bread truck for its instrumental role in developing the first mobile and wireless Internet connection. News.com's Kara Tsuboi introduces the engineers behind a feat that happened three decades ago this month. Read more »

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Vintage Computer Festival: The rare, historic, and bizarre

Blow off the dust and get ready to dig through boxes. News.com's Kara Tsuboi takes a tour of the biggest garage sale for antique computers, vintage video games, and discarded gadgets - -the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Read more »

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Flixster built into MySpace profile via Google's OpenSocial

ZDNet.com takes a look at a demonstration of how functionality from the Flixster social movie review site can be piped directly into a MySpace.com profile using Google's OpenSocial framework as the connective tissue between the two sites. Read more »

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Holocentric Modeler Demo

Holocentric CEO John Forrest demonstrates the Holocentric Modeler, which is able to model from requirements analysis through to source code. Read more »

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Salesforce's new AIR toolkit

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Following the announcement that Salesforce will provide a free toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR development on its Force.com platform, I spoke to the company’s Doug Farber, the Vice President of Operations, Asia Pacific about its functionality and other issues surrounding the toolkit. Read more »

This week's news regex: Open[A-Za-z]+

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If there were announcements to be made this week, many of the usual suspects chose Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco as the place to make them. Read more »

Adobe to set Flex free

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- Adobe have announced plans to open source the Flex platform in full under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL) by the end of 2007. Read more »

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    This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

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    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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