Hej!
I agree on your interest and I can assure that qooxdoo is the best for many
settings. Maybe not satisfies all tastes, but I have not found anything more
complete out there. I am sure that the core team will be adding functionality
as browsers change. You have to be aware of it is a slow process to upgrade all
browsers out there and therefore the work with new implementations must have
some degree of backward compatibility.
Fortunately, qooxdoo is definitively one of the, if not the most, advanced
javascript framework in the market. The design is really good and in some parts
based on excellent new ideas. Javascript is not an easy language to build a
framework on! Lots of tricks to get it going...mostly due to a rain forest of
wild browsers living their own lives.
Unfortunately, qooxdoo is more or less a garage project from a marketing
perspective. Very few know of it in the world. The website is in its
functionality average, but its design is already old. Almost no money and too
little time is spent on marketing of this fantastic tool. Until that will be
done, it will still be in the garage division. Unfortunately development goes
fast and the competitors don't wait. Especially not the commercial
alternatives. One scenario could be an alliance with one of the big market
players. We have not seen this happen so far. If nothing drastic happens, it
will still be a small alternative, but maybe still technically the best.
Even though this insecurity due to the market and fame, we chose qooxdoo
because the code has been fairly well documented, the structure is robust and
it is technically the best. It still has a lot of things to improve, but
already now it is the best. We have developed about 1,200,000 lines of
"qooxdoo" code and converted a system which soon will "fly"... We are satisfied
about it. The support is fast and mostly accurate. The core team is mostly very
skilled in its answers. But we would never choose qooxdoo for such a big
project without knowing we have our own resources if qooxdoo dies or if the
qooxdoo team disappears in some or the other way. Too big investment and too
big risk, if we wouldn't have the resources by ourselves.
I hope the above clarifies one of many views from the community.
Stefan
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