Safari support for qooxdoo coming
Filed under: Announcements, Safari, Technical
By Fabian Jakobs @ November 13, 2006 4:46 pm
Safari support for qooxdoo is coming along nicely. qooxdoo support for the nightly build of WebKit is near to complete. Most demos and examples are working, including the API viewer . The screenshot shows the “At a Glance” example running in WebKit. Safari 2.0.4 shipped with the current OS X 10.4 is usable but still has some rendering issues.
For the next qooxdoo release we plan to fully support WebKit, which hopefully builds the basis for the next major release of Safari shipped with the upcoming OS X 10.5. We decided to target WebKit because of its improved standard support and its dramatically faster JavaScript engine. Some qooxdoo examples are up to seven times faster using WebKit compared to Safari 2. Even if we would fully support Safari 2, it will never be a good platform for big JavaScript applications.
Comment by Installation
The resulting output of qooxdoo ajax looks very nice. However, the requirement of installing cygwin, going through make, make source, make whatever, et cetera, takes away from the attractiveness of the framework.
I know that the approach may result in suboptimal download sizes and so on, but would it be possible to have a simplified development method in which developers include one or more javascript files and simply get on with their lives?
That would be highly desirable in order to reduce the learning curve and getting started with the framework.
November 22, 2006 11:39 am
Comment by Fabian
If you want to test qooxdoo without using cygwin and make you can just download the precompiled build version. This includes a single qx.js JavaScript file with all qooxdoo classes. For optimized qooxdoo applications howerver it it better to use the SDK builds.
November 22, 2006 11:47 am