Laszlo critique at Burtonia Blogs

Jeff Burton has posted a series on his experience with Laszlo:

• Preface
  
• Part 1
  
• Part 2
  
• Part 3
  
• Part 4   Quoting Burton: There are some restrictions on [dataset]that are kind of onerous. For instance, it can't be part of a class. That may be true, but so far I haven't found any documentation to that effect. Also I have built classes that contain the dataset declaration and they compile ok. But at runtime when the code attempts to access data in the given path, I get the an error message like "couldn't find dataset for blaDataset:/myXML[1]/myData".
  
  
• Part 5   Quoting Burton: Speaking of getting and setting... Laszlo has a confusing variety of ways to changing object attributes.... Well said! This is the source of my "setAttribute, don't setText" confusion.
  
  I also agree with his comments about the Laszlo component extensibility. It's kind of not-so-good. The stuff is opensource and you have to be willing to muck around in it.
  
  
• Part 6
  
• Conclusion