Welcome to the weekly status update.

Placeholders for qx.Website

We added a new module called placeholder. This comes in handy if you want to use placeholders in your form elements, also with support for older IEs (i.e. IE 9 or below). Some browsers do not offer the placeholder feature natively. Thus the new module offers a fallback if needed. Check out the demo using IE < 10 or Firefox < 4 to see the fallback. In every other case, the native placeholders are used.

Apidocs:  @return now requires a {Type}

The @return tag in JSDoc comments now requires a {<Type>} specifier. This was optional for some time to aid migration, but is now mandatory (you can fall back on supplying an empty map {}). Here is an example:

 @return {String|null} the result string (if any)

See here for a syntax summary.

Bugfixes

For a complete list of tasks accomplished during the last working week, use this bugzilla query.

JSConf EU 2012

Daniel and Martin of the qooxdoo core team will be at another awesome JSConf EU, Berlin in the first weekend of October. Wanna meet us, just drop us a note and we’d be happy to arrange for a meeting, either during the conference or on the evenings.

Have a nice weekend!