qooxdoo 0.6.1 released
Filed under: Announcements, Release
By Andreas Ecker @ September 20, 2006 8:49 pm
After only two weeks since the ground-breaking release of qooxdoo 0.6 quite a lot of progress has been made. We have received many contributions and bugfixes from the community. These patches as well as our own modifications have been integrated into the code base in the ongoing effort to raise qooxdoo's stability.
As has been previously announced, we try to release often, now that some of the most challenging reconstructions like namespaces have been mastered. While API changes for this minor release are negligible, migration scripts are available to upgrade existing applications, of course.
Preliminary browser support for Safari has been introduced. It would be great if Safari users could help in identifying, analyzing and fixing the various layout problems. It is still not recommended to use qooxdoo applications in Safari-based production environments.
Besides bugfixes and stability improvements there are some interesting additions as well. Tabs may optionally include close buttons, the tree widget TreeFullControl now supports multiple root nodes. Iframes containing external documents now have built-in blocking support to not interrupt user actions like drag & drop.
Application development is even faster than before: the easy-to-use make shell commands that generate optimized and tailor-made custom applications run much faster. Users get a jump-start for their application development by using the skeletons included in the qooxdoo SDK.
We would like to thank all people involved in qooxdoo development for their help and contribution. Every user's feedback is important to continuously improve qooxdoo as one of the most amazing JavaScript frameworks around. Enjoy!
Comment by Jesús Pérez
I just arrived at “QooxDoo Wonder Land” a couple of weeks ago, coming from a research on Ajax toolkits to change , remake web-application user interfaces, I could not believe what I shaw looking at QooXDoo. But this is not enough, requirements are not only a good license model, a fancy look & feel and demos … playing with it opens your mind to a new “way to do”, when you make a choice you married somehow with the tools, technologies and most important with “the way” everything is done. I follow up the SVN repository, developers mailing list, looking at source code, etc Looking behind the scenes I am very glad to feel how everything is done and grow, it is exciting how things are changing. From last version we can see very very important improvements, we already know everything can be better and better, there is a bug just waiting us at the next corner but let you take a rest and feel and breath the fresh air of QooXDoo state now.. simply CONGRATULATIONS to everybody, from the developer team to all contributors and people sharing their knowledge and experience … this is the real “open source” experience.
Finally let me summarize what is change in my “way to to”, my “way to think”:
- After many years of poor JavaScript love and peace (only to validate and do some tasks) I can develop a whole GUI app. Wahhh !!!
- I can play with client and server with no page reload, hits, and redo same code thousand of time in a user session inter-boring-action.
- Almost everything is a Object … class … OO !!
- Everything can change from an event, things are not linear, be ready for an event everywhere. Open your mind and wait …
- Nightmare of years on trying IE with the work done, fighting with HTML, JS, CSS, etc to make everything work as it was created, etc are now from the old days, thanks for the rendering !!!
- I can concentrate in a pure application design an implementation, rather than suffering to synchronize tools, I can work deeply in application logic and flow, defining what user wants and how.
- Sometime dreams can be truth , sometime user wishes can be done, excluding bugs and new features, of course. Everything at server side looks more clear and clean. Things can be simple and easy if you are able to be concentrated in one thing deeply at a time.
Thanks !!!
September 21, 2006 9:34 am
Comment by mg
Yep. qooXdoo really rules!
September 21, 2006 9:56 am