I’ve been following OpenLaszlo from the sidelines for about a year now and am quite excited about its possibilities. Here’s hoping “Legals” is the breakthrough that web development needs…

Anyway, I’m not sure about a pure SVG backend for Laszlo since SVG is not mature enough… now that a DHTML backend is in the works, I was thinking that several key enhancements to the DHTML backend to include inline SVG might be the way to go (Dojo supports this already apparently).

I’ve sent you an email.

Regards,
Jeff

I work as a developer on the OpenLaszlo project (www.openlaszlo.org). It is a platform for making it easy to write desktop-style windowed apps which run in browsers.

We’ve got a Flash runtime for our platform and are working on a DHTML runtime right now. I have been interested in SVG for a long time, I wrote some early apps in it in 2001-2002. I want to write a SVG native backend for our platform now. We have a fairly simple kernel API which basically just needs to support image and text regions, as well as some keyboard handling, mouse events, and data loading.

I’ve been following your SVG articles for a while.
I’d like to tap your expertise at some point with browser SVG issues, particularly when I get to Internet Exploder compatibility.

Is there an email address I can reach you at to correspond further?

My email is hqm@alum.mit.edu

Thanks,
Henry