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Welcome! :-)
qooxdoo is one of the most comprehensive and innovative Open Source AJAX
frameworks. It is a multipurpose framework that includes support for
professional JavaScript development, a state-of-the-art GUI toolkit and
high-level client-server communication.
License
qooxdoo may be used under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL) or the Eclipse Public License (EPL). As a recipient of qooxdoo,
you may choose which license to receive the code under.
Please make sure you understand the dual license of qooxdoo and the rights and
obligations that come with it. See the top-level LICENSE file for more details.
Framework
qooxdoo is entirely class-based and tries to leverage the features of
object-oriented JavaScript. It is fully based on namespaces and does not
modify or extend native JavaScript types. Most modern browsers are
supported (e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera; Safari soon) and it
is free of memory leaks. It comes with a comprehensive API reference, that
is auto-generated from Javadoc-like comments and from the syntax tree
representing the code. The fast and complete JavaScript parser not only
allows for doc generation, but is an integral part of the automatic build
process that makes optimizing, compressing, linking and deployment of
custom applications very user-friendly.
GUI Toolkit
Despite being a pure JavaScript framework, qooxdoo is quite on par with
GUI toolkits like Qt or SWT when it comes to advanced yet easy to implement
user interfaces. It offers a full-blown set of widgets that are hardly
distinguishable from elements of native desktop applications. Full built-in
support for keyboard navigation, focus and tab handling and drag & drop is
provided. Dimensions can be specified as static, auto-sizing, stretching,
percentage, weighted flex or min/max or even as combinations of those.
All widgets are based on powerful and flexible layout managers which are a
key to many of the advanced layout capabilities. Interface description is
done programmatically in JavaScript for maximum performance.
No HTML has to be used and augmented to define the interface. The qooxdoo
user does not even have to know CSS to style the interface. Clean and
easy-to-configure themes for appearance, colors or icons allow for a
full-fledged styling that even supports runtime switching.
AJAX
While being a client-side and server-agnostic solution, the qooxdoo project
does include complete implementations of RPC servers (currently Java and PHP)
to demonstrate some of its advanced client-server communcation. An abstract
transport layer supports queues, timeouts and implementations via
XMLHttpRequest, Iframes and Scripts. Like the rest of qooxdoo it fully
supports event-based programming which greatly simplifies asynchronous
communication.
Learn more
For further information about qooxdoo, please point your browser to
http://qooxdoo.org/about
For a step-by-step introduction to qooxdoo application development, please
see the instructions in the user manual at
http://qooxdoo.org/documentation/user_manual
Have fun! ;-)
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