qooxdoo

Upcoming Releases We are currently following the ramp-down plan for another joint release of a regular and a maintenance version of qooxdoo, 1.6 and 1.5.1 respectively. Planned date is for next week, Wednesday, December 07, 2011. There is a general code freeze in effect now as we are testing the SDK candidates intensively. There will be [...]

Release Rampdown We're heading towards another joint release of a development and patch version of qooxdoo, 1.6 and 1.5.1 respectively. The planned date is Wednesday, December 07, 2011. We will observe a general code freeze starting from December 02 up until the releases are finalized, to stabilize the code base. If you are working with a [...]

Recently, we've been thinking about how we can make some of the qooxdoo framework's nifty features accessible to developers working on JavaScript projects not based on an application skeleton. One result of these deliberations is the Portable Test ... [More] Runner. In a nutshell, it's a single .js file with no external dependencies containing qooxdoo's entire unit [...] [Less]

Another busy working week towards the upcoming releases in early December, thus there isn't much to expose in the weekly news. If interested, look into the bugzilla query below about issues we worked on and resolved in the last few days. Bootstrap Cleanup We did some cleanup in the lowest layer of qooxdoo, the qx.Bootstrap class. Usually, [...]

During the week work continued towards the next regular release, which is due in early December. Transforms and Animations One great and often requested feature was introduced into master just the other day: the new layers for transforms and animations. Please take a closer look, take it for a test drive and give us your feedback. [...]

One of the big pieces in the whole new CSS3 world are animations and transforms with all the hype about 3D, hardware acceleration and the combinations of both of them. But as always, browser vendors introduce these new features not at the same time with the same amount of features and addressable with the same [...]

Last week there has been quite some work on bugs, a bit of Github afterwork, and continued work on experimental new features. Thus we keep the weekly status report rather short this time, with more to come in the next weeks. Generator The generator now evaluates OS environment variables as configuration macros (bug#5632). This feature [...]

Another great week for your most favorite framework, so here comes a brief summary: Github We've made the switch to Git and Github this week. Although we need to accustom ourselves and will come across a few itches, all in all it looks like a smooth transition. Feedback was generally positive, and we're starting to enjoy commit [...]

We have successfully moved the master repository for qooxdoo to Github. The web URL for the repository is https://github.com/qooxdoo/qooxdoo This does not affect the qooxdoo-contrib repository which remains on Sourceforge for the time being. ... [More] Committers will now use Git as the version control system, and work against the Github repository. Those all need a clone of this repository [...] [Less]

This app started as an experiment of mine some days ago where I wanted to get an offline-ready app up and running in under an hour using the qooxdoo framework and all its low level features. Doing that, I ended up with some styling I could not be proud of but I basically had a [...]