Laszlo Calendar as a Laszlo Webtop application
May 10th, 2008Last week Laszlo announced a new application for Laszlo Webtop: Laszlo Calendar running inside Webtop! If you visited the project site of the OpenLaszlo project and have taken a look at the impressive demos you’ve probably seen the old Laszlo Calendar.
That application has - as far as I know - first been coded in LZX about 5 years ago but the UI prototype was created by Bret Simister of Laszlo even earlier.I’ve seen a few companies who either got inspired by the by the Laszlo Calendar UI state changes (take a loot at the Scrybe Syncing calendar in the video on the iScrybe.com site). TopQuadrant even built a prototype for a semantically enabled version of the calendar.
The interface looks much more modern now. The transformation of the window size corresponding to the view mode is excellent, there’s a lot intelligence in the interface which is not directly visible.Here’s a screenshot of it, but if you want to try it register for a free email account at GoWebtop.com.
Adam Wolff, the president of Elastic Process and former Chief Software Architect at Laszlo made a nice video explaining the UI and super user experience, you’ll find the video in his blog. I don’t think there are many calendar apps - desktop or web - with such a sophisticated user interface, and this is only beta.