Good news to every developer of modern web applications. After more than 5 years (IE6 was released in August 2001) we all hope to see IE7 fix some of the most severe problems and bugs of IE6. All qooxdoo-based applications are expected to benefit from IE7, particularly due to the dramatic JavaScript performance improvements that we reported earlier.

qooxdoo fully supports IE7. It would be great if qooxdoo users and developers could continue to test and double-check their applications for IE7 compatibility. Please report any IE7 issues in bugzilla as soon as possible.

Enjoy ... and good luck! 

There is a new feed available on our homepage. You can now easily follow the development in our SVN repository. Hope you like this. Especially interesting for users who want to be up-to-date. Also a nice alternative to our qooxdoo-commit mailing list.

Following a report of Microsoft Higher Education - Mid-Atlantic it seems that IE7 will be released on the 18th this month. In just 5 days. The most changes are only interesting for typical web developers (e.g. CSS fixes) while the latest improvements to the JavaScript engine are also an interesting point for us and other big JavaScript frameworks. I hope we will see a market share of 50 percent after the first six months.

An interesting read for all web developers: Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7.

A few hours ago I've committed a change which adds a variable name optimizer into the qooxdoo trunk. This optimizer replaces the names of local variables with shorter ones. The result is a size reduction of the compiled JavaScript file by 10%. This new behavior is enabled per default for all the included Makefiles. So after an SVN update you can build your (again) better optimized version of qooxdoo.

This can also been seen as a next step in bringing support for obfuscation another step forward. I have also updated the online demos and the API viewer to use this new feature. I would like to invite you to give me feedback as soon as possible. Maybe you also find some bugs. If so, please report them immediately. Thank you.