Rob Novak did an excellent job describing the current landscape of tools used to develop Rich Internet Applications. In particular:

• Backbase can be used to display view information in a method very similar to Notes client table captions
• Smooth Gallery provides a very slick interface to scroll through pictures in a slideshow format, without using Adobe Flash
• dojo provides both a rich text editor and a date picker

Viktor Krantz then got to take the spotlight and deliver one of the true "sexy" moments of the conference. In the previous version of this presentation, Viktor showed an AJAX-generated calendar that does not repaint when you scroll through pages, and can display more than one calendar at a time. By using dojo, the calendar is now internationalized for all locales. Additionally, a pop-up box of summary information displays when you roll-over a calendar entry. dojo also makes it possible to drag and drop a calendar entry into a new date, and prompt the user to either confirm or change the entry information. Way cool, guys!

The only thing missing from this presentation was Right Said Fred. But that would have been over the top, even for LotuSphere!

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