The first alpha version of qooxdoo 0.8 is out. Here's the list of the main changes in this version:

Qooxdoo Developer team released the new version of HtmlArea with the following main changes:

Text formatting

• font family

• font size

• font weight

• text decoration

• font style

• text color

• background color

• text indention

• Complete Undo / Redo handling

• Insertion of HTML elements

  • table

  • image

  • list

  • horizontal ruler

• Easily expendable to insert custom HTML

Source: qooxdoo

Johnathan Rass write abour new animation effect features of upcoming qooxdoo 0.8 release. He writes:

«qooxdoo 0.8 - the next major release that includes an exciting rewrite of the GUI toolkit - will also offer a powerful animation layer with a wide range of effects. qooxdoo animation, as we call it, is to a large extent derived from the well-known effect library script.aculo.us.»

You can view the demo with the sources available on qooxdoo site.

QWT 0.2.0 released.

It allows you to create qooxdoo applications just by leveraging Java technology - no HTML, CSS, DOM nor JavaScript knowledge is needed. You can take full advantage of the typical Java IDE features (like auto-completion, etc.) while coding your application. The Java source code is automatically transformed into the qooxdoo JavaScript equivalent before deployment.

Version 0.2.0 of QWT features a simplified installation, MS Windows support and Reverse Ajax (a.k.a. Comet, still experimental).

There is some information about upcoming qooxdoo 0.8 release. Fabian Jakobs write:

qooxdoo 0.7.3 was  released today.  Thereis a lor of bugfixes but besides them  there are a few new features to mention:

• Cross-browser logging features based on Firebug Lite
• A source-code validation utility similar to JSLint, executed by a simple “make lint”
• Re-worked feedreader to demonstrate best practices for application development
• Early preview of the next-generation build tool generator2.

The most significant changes and additions in qooxdoo 0.7 are the following:

• New elegant class declaration syntax
• Advanced OO features
• Java-like interfaces
• Ruby-esque mixins
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