Qooxdoo Framework

Qooxdoo is a highly recognized framework for Ajax and JavaScript based applications. The framework is user and developer friendly as it aims to develop online applications without dragging the user or extensive coding. It's a smart framework as it carefully adjusts to the demand of the developer instead of the other way around. However, Qooxdoo is not always the first choice of developers. Its best feature is also its disadvantage as it limits extensive development for their users.

Qooxdoo will try to overcome this disadvantage on their latest release. Now on version 0.8.3, the latest version will have the following features:

Implementing Flash Widget

Qooxdoo is showing signs of leaning towards JavaScript animation in this new feature. But instead of pushing for more JavaScript, the new Flash widget will seek support from Flash in order to implement interaction. Developers can send message from Flash to JavaScript and Qooxdoo so that data can be streamed faster. What's impressive in this feature is that the Flash version of the widget is actually available. The corresponding source code in HTML (for flash) and JavaScript is readily available when needed. It's a very simple but smart tool on Qooxdoo.

Smarter Selection API

Another impressive update for Qooxdoo is on their treatment of selection API. The trouble with the previous versions is the use of various methods for API selection. Of course a variety of methods offer an advantage but the disadvantages are just too much. Qooxdoo recognized this limitation and opted to remove those methods and unify the selection. This update is really good news since it will simplify tree hierarchy in the application. It might be possible that the new version of Qooxdoo will have faster reaction even when dealing with massive data.

Better Data Binding

Data binding in Qooxdoo have been significantly improved in this version. The developers of this framework opted to expand the functions of Qooxdoo in data binding in order to provide additional streamlining options. For example, developers can opt to use single property to other modes of property.

here are no limitations on conversion from various properties in the previous version but the latest version improves the performance of the application.

Error Handling

This is probably the best feature of the new version of Qooxdoo. One of the biggest problems of developers who use a framework is that the errors are treated as subjected. This means the error detected today might not be detected in other browsers and other functions that seemed to work well might not work later. This problem is now being addressed by Qooxdoo by adding a global error handler. This will help developers detect their errors faster and prevent them from errors after implementation. This feature will help Qooxdoo implement applications that are not only visible and functional in limited browsers but in almost every major browsers as well.

Qooxdoo is not yet on its 1.0 version. But the significant updates suggest that the framework is slowly learning and adapting to the demands of the developers. The update offers significant changes in the framework which will help developers build better Ajax or JavaScript based application.