Since I stumbled upon Saaj's very balanced and awesome writeup http://recollection.saaj.me/article/qooxdoo-next-and-targeting-website-development.html , i am also worry about qooxdoo's direction.
Qooxdoo Original goals very good and Decisions are Sound , but back in that day , browsers aren't that powerful enough, i can agree with qooxdoo's Ambition to follow website path . But today , advancement of web techologies , everything has changed. And I believe it is time for Qooxdoo's original Goals to shine. Angular , React , Emberjs , Polymer , they are all trying what qooxdoo did since 2009-2010 . They may have cool animations and stuff But , they are still NO MATCH for qooxdoo's ZeroHTML and Zero CSS way of doing things. QxWeb sucks , totally . I prefer awful JQuery over qxWeb , they are just similar , nothing sexy about it. I agree with saaj that there is no need to follow that path. QxMobile is also very outdated , not ready. None of the qooxdoo's spinoff projects can compare to qxdesktop. Thats why , in http://phwa.be , we avoid qxweb/qxmobile and trying to work everything in qxdesktop with masurable success so far for Mobile Phones too (just the biggest feature of qooxdoo , Virtual List , is tooo slow for mobile when scrolled , thanks to Fixed positioning) . What i wish for qooxdoo in future, ? (more like a dream list) - Scrap qxWeb , qxMobile , merge all possible features for qxMobile into qxdektop . - Add a new layout that support both QxMobile and QxDesktop at the same time. So like Bootstrap/Material Design Light , only need one UI to develop both Mobile and desktop. - Add New CSS capabilities (many are missing , Multiple shadows and many) Pull requests already exist but none of qxdoo devs care about them : https://github.com/qooxdoo/qooxdoo/pull/139 - Allow more Contributor collaboration with guidelines. - A Convert for CSS to Qooxdoo Theme, that alone will make qooxdoo much easier to theme. JUST SCRAP THAT BUGZILLA , nothing good about it. Use Github for issue management , it is more approachable for everyone, make everyone lifes easier. Those will keep Qooxdoo above all others. But Those may be just dreams? Coz Qxdoo is pretty much dead since July. Thanks Phyo.
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