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Another weekend, time for another weekly status update. Framework qooxdoo now SSL-safe This week a fix for the ResourceManager class has landed in the trunk. This fix is targeted for applications under IE running in SSL mode and aims to suppress the ... [More] so-called Unsecure Elements warning completely. Take a look at the blog entry for further info. Form Management As [...] [Less]

Whenever an application is delivered in SSL and an image is used as CSS background-image and referenced with HTTP or as a relative URL IE does warn the user of Unsecure Elements at the page. Though this warning is reasonable the goal should be to not let happen this when an user starts your application [...]

Another week, another short summary of activities in qooxdoo land ... Form Management We continued our work on form management in qooxdoo. As a first step of combining the form widgets into a form, a form manager was created. This manager is ... [More] responsible for validation and serialization. A first demo shows how to use client-side validation. We [...] [Less]

Here's another weekly report, which collects input from the various core developers (thanks, guys!) and tries to massage it into a (mostly) coherent and appealing blog post ... Form API We introduced a new property on some form widgets called placeholder. Perhaps you already know what to do with it? If, for example, a TextField is empty, [...]

The conditional or ternary (because it involves three operands) operator is probably familiar to most programmers working with C-style programming languages. JavaScript adopts it right away: condExp ? thenExp : elseExp All three operands are ... [More] expressions, and the resulting expression means "If the condExp expression evaluates to true, return the value of the thenExp, otherwise [...] [Less]

It's just the end of the week, not the end of the world, so here comes a freshly baked status report: Yes we can This is a call of duty to every reader of this post: qooxdoo has been chosen as a finalist in the annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. During the first voting phase it became [...]

One thing about web development many of us like most nowadays is its constant, sometimes rapid progress. The comprehensiveness and performance of tools and technologies is exciting to watch (and even more exciting to advance actively). Anyone remember how the web stalled after the dot com bubble burst and the browser war ended in a [...]

In object oriented programming it is common practice to throw exceptions for known error conditions. However, JavaScript lacks one essential feature to make consistent use of exceptions practical: There is no way have a fallback handler, which ... [More] receives all exceptions that are not caught in the application code. The result is that uncaught exceptions show [...] [Less]

Have you tried a demo URL like http://demo.qooxdoo.org/devel/demobrowser/#widget~Label.html lately? We use fragment identifiers (or anchors, if you prefer) to select specific demos within the Demobrowser, as the widget/Label demo in this case. Those ... [More] URLs can be bookmarked, sent around, and appear in the browser's history so you can go back and forth between them using [...] [Less]

Another (short) week here in Germany at the qooxdoo headquarters. Since yesterday was a public holiday in some states here in Germany some of the qooxdoo core developers took the opportunity for a long weekend. Anyway: here is the report for this ... [More] week. Framework RadioGroup The old implementation allowed an empty selection, when calling for example the resetSelection method. [...] [Less]