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Here's another round of news from last week's project work. Framework Virtual Widgets Last Friday we finished the first implementation of a prefetching feature for the virtual pane. Prefetching is a technique to improve the scroll performance of ... [More] virtual widgets. Usually only the visible part of a virtual pane is rendered. This is how the current Table is [...] [Less]

The new data binding layer in qooxdoo is getting into shape. After implementing the basic layer, the so-called Single Value Binding, model classes have been addressed: Model classes You can use any plain qooxdoo class as a model. qooxdoo's powerful ... [More] dynamic properties are used to store and manage the data. An array-like model also requires its own [...] [Less]

Another successful working week with progress in many areas: Data Binding There has been good advancement in implementing data binding in qooxdoo. The new controllers for binding list and tree widgets are almost done. As a first proof of its ... [More] applicability the inner workings of the feed reader have been changed significantly using the data binding components. [...] [Less]

Why does it matter? With qooxdoo you are able to build full-blown single-page applications, typically with a large amount of widgets. Since the user stays on such a single page for quite a long time and the application is highly dynamic, new widgets ... [More] are frequently created and existing ones are destroyed during the application's life cycle. Every [...] [Less]

Last week we announced that we are starting to work on a general infrastructure for virtual widgets. We have received very positive and constructive feedback for this project. Today we presented our first ideas for the virtual widget infrastructure ... [More] to the qooxdoo team. Our basic idea is to have a strict separation between rendering and interaction. [...] [Less]

In a recent post I wrote about I18N in qooxdoo. Another topic in that vein is Unicode handling. Unicode is a general standard on encoding characters from natural languages all over the world. Basically, it is enumerating all those characters, starting from 0 to well beyond 1 million. On computers, these numbers are then instantiated, again [...]

Welcome to another weekly status update. This time we start with the tooling: Generator The Generator saw a bit of activity in the internationalization (i18n) sector. A recent blog post gave an overview of the support for translation within qooxdoo ... [More] , and some bugs where fixed by providing patches for David Jean Louis' very decent polib implementation. As [...] [Less]

In qooxdoo we have two virtual widgets, the Table and the TreeVirtual. These widgets are virtual in the sense that they only create HTML markup for the visible part of the data. This enables us to render tables which can display any number of rows. The (scrolling) performance is only limited by the number of [...]

"I-what?!" Well, I18N stands for "Internationalization", a word that starts with an "I" and ends with an "N" and has roughly 18 characters in between. It's all about making a system support different natural languages and locales in its user interface. If you are creating a qooxdoo application and want to support I18N, an important part [...]

We're back from holiday season and are adjusting to the regular work schedule. Since most of the core team members returned as recently as last Wednesday, this weekly status report is slightly out-of-sync. qooxdoo 0.8.1 Hope you enjoyed the 0.8.1 ... [More] release right before Xmas? We did some extended and thorough testing before releasing it on 2008-12-18, so [...] [Less]