here’s my shoutBox written in openLaszlo frontend and PHP backend.
Try closing the shoutBox, it is animated 🙂
So the idea of writing this simple application is just to get my feet wet in Open Laszlo. As we are moving to web 2.0, writing RIAs will be the future for web programmers. Many frameworks now have ajax plugin. I wrote my first ajax chat script in 2005 without any libraries. I’m sure it’s much easier to write one with plugins. But it was still nice to write one from scratch. You then truly understand how it works. Competing with adobe’s flex, google’s GWT (ajax framework), possibly Microsoft’s new silverlight there is an open source project called open laszlo. If you look at their demo applications, it seems to be pretty powerful. I think it’s a very interesting alternative to ajax so I gave it a shot.
Pure-Essence.Net 
Hi there;
Not sure if you know this, but Adobe Flex is also open source – there’s even a public bug database at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/
I would be more than happy to send you some books and a training DVD to help you learn Flex, if you like. Just send me your email with your address.
Mike Potter
Adobe Flex Marketing Team
That’s great to hear. I’d like to try building Flex. Where can I download the sources from?
P T Withington
OpenLaszlo Development Team
I was wondering if you could please post your PHP source code as well?
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here it is
http://regretless.com/openLaszlo/shoutBox.phps
AMAZING! I LOVE YOUR SHOUTBOX! It’s so cool and it’s animated. It’s wonderful. You’re a genius, Dodo.