Is the OpenLaszlo DHTML runtime production ready?

Question

As a long time time Flex developer I've thought about building my next application - which should run on the iPad as well - with OpenLaszlo. OpenLaszlo offer a Flash and DHTML runtime, but besides the demos on the website I don't see any real world application built with OpenLaszlo: http://openlaszlo.org/showcase

Has anyone built a large application with the DHTML runtime, and what was your experience doing that.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I've tested our complicated video editing application under HTML5 mode of OpenLaszlo (formerly known as DHTML mode) and everything works aside from the text mis-aligning a bit. Audio and Video playback is not available in the latest official release (4.9.0) but the latest nightly builds ( http://download.openlaszlo.org/nightly/trunk/ ) contain the html5video and html5audio classes which work fine for media types that play in the new HTML5 and tags (different browsers support different ones). My test results of what works can be viewed here:

http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-10058

In regards to iPad, everything seemed to work fine except that it was not possible to programmatically play more than 1 video/audio item at a time without user interaction. However, this seems to be a limitation of iPad and not OpenLaszlo since a test HTML5 application suffered the same limitation.

Answer 2

http://www.pandora.com and http://www.gliffy.com are large applications built on OpenLaszlo Framework.