Thursday, June 7th, 2007
qooxdoo 0.7 released
Category: JavaScript
, Library
Andreas Ecker, and the qooxdoo team have released qooxdoo 0.7, a library that embraces class based OO.
There are many new features such as:
- New elegant class declaration syntax
- Advanced OO features
- Java-like interfaces
- Ruby-esque mixins
- Full-blown dynamic properties, supporting init values, priorities and inheritance
- Intuitive theme support for appearances, colors, borders, fonts and icons
- Designer-friendly, cross-browser styling without CSS know-how
- Runtime switching of complete meta themes
- Extended developer tool chain (e.g. additional checks in source version, memory-leak checklist)
- Various optimizations for deployable custom applications (e.g. browser-specific variants)
- Browser history manager (cross-browser back button support; bookmarkability)
- Fast, modular API viewer that supports all the advanced OO features
- Integrated unit testing framework (â€Test runner†application)
- Brand new demo browser as a replacement for the prehistoric sample section
4.3 rating from 22 votes
Just a sidenote: Qooxdoo in German means “What you’re looking at!?”