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Interactive Laszlo systems already have been put in place by the likes of La Quinta Inns. The chain presents Web site visitors with a U.S. map; users click on a state, then the locale, to find what rooms are available at what price, without leaving the original page.
The interactions are possible because Laszlo injects a set of interactive components into the browser window and alerts an Internet server when a user takes an action, such as clicking on dates to reserve a room. Although Laszlo runs inside the Macromedia Flash Player, later this year it will shift its output to run, as Ajax does, as XML and asynchronous JavaScript. Developers will leave it to OpenLaszlo to resolve browser differences while freeing themselves up to focus on enhancing user-Internet interaction.
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