Interesting story (to me, I suppose). A buddy of mine tipped me off to Spoofee.com a few days ago. I decided to subscribe to the RSS feed for a few days and see if I found it useful (yes Kelly...I really did get a free year subscription to Jane magazine...HEY it was FREE!!). Today there was an article that H&R Block was providing a free download of TurboTax Federal for a limited time. So I click the link and of course H&R had already removed the page. Since I was already at the page I thought, "hey, I'm already here, why not attempt to navigate the site and find the page manually!".
OK, to get to the point, the navigational menu on H&R's main page caught my eye. At first I thought it was all AJAX but right clicking said it was Flash. However(comma) the Flash menu had a reference to something called "OpenLaszlo". "Open"?!?!?! Open=OpenSource. OpenSource=free (most times).
So I know have a working installation of OpenLaszlo and it's dev server (runs Apache Tomcat) and am going through it's application development overview. The selling point for me is that it compiles into Flash format. With version 4, it now compiles into DHTML too, and according to their press release, the new version will also support J2ME (that for those of you that like coding in Java).
If you get a chance and you like programming, go check out their demos.
OpenLaszlo | the premier open-source platform for rich internet applications
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