qooxdoo

Welcome back to the weekly status update. After the successful shipping of the most recent qooxdoo versions last week, we have some more goodies in the pipeline. But we won't disclose it until next week, to make it a nice Xmas gift. What else is to say about last working week: iPad regression As you certainly know, [...]

Somebody uploaded a very nice video showing a qooxdoo app in action. While this is by no means qooxdoo-specific, I very much believe in the power of video instructions, ever since I first read about it in Tom DeMarco's "Why Does Software Cost So Much?", especially when you include voice comments. It's so much easier [...]

It's been a busy, but successful week. We hope you have been thrilled by the new releases qooxdoo 1.3 and 1.2.2, which recently shipped as planned. We're in a stage of post-climactic activities, so lets take the chance to catch up with things that happened in the qooxdoo community during the release ramp down: Grails and qooxdoo Mengu, [...]

We are happy to announce another joint release of the qooxdoo framework. You can download versions 1.3 and 1.2.2, the corresponding release notes and manuals are online as well. The qooxdoo 1.3 release comes with substantial improvements in almost ... [More] the entire range of the framework, with some nice, partly experimental, new features. Here is a brief [...] [Less]

Hi everyone. Being busy with the ramp-down for the releases qooxdoo 1.3 and qooxdoo 1.2.2, scheduled for this week, we'd like to keep this regular weekly status update short. We're making good progress, so we currently expect the double release to be shipped as planned. For a current state of the framework as well as [...]

Welcome back the weekly status update. Tri-State Checkbox ToggleButtons, and with them CheckBoxes, can now have a third state, called "undetermined" (or "mixed"). In case of a checkbox, this means that the checkbox is neither checked nor unchecked. ... [More] Here is a screenshot: You enable the third state by setting the triState property. For more details, check out the [...] [Less]

As a real software geek (and a potential fan of Star Wars) you are going to enjoy this movie for sure. We visualized the entire framework development from the very beginnings (qooxdoo's inception in early 2005) to its current state (close to the 1.3 release). With over five years of permanent development, about 25.000 commits and [...]

Here comes another weekly status update of your favorite JavaScript framework: Tree: New property for open folder icons There is now an easy way to set an "opened" icon for tree items. Of course, it has always been possible to define state-dependent ... [More] icons using the appearance system. However, with the introduction of the property iconOpened you can [...] [Less]

Let's hear what Norbert Schröder, contributor of the existing DarkTheme, has to share with you this time : "Having gained some experience with custom themes for qooxdoo by designing the DarkTheme contribution, I wondered if it would make sense to try a more lightweight approach. So I sat down and spent a few days developing a [...]

Welcome back to another weekly summary. New colleague Say hello to Gabriel Munteanu, our new colleague at 1&1 in the Bucharest office. He will work closely with his local team mate Adrian and the rest of the qooxdoo core team on improving the framework and you might have already noticed his first commits or posts to the [...]