Ext JS 2.1 and Ext GWT 1.0 released, preview of Ext JS 3.0
April 21, 2008 by Jack Slocum
Ext JS is pleased to announce the latest release of the Ext JS toolkit and the introduction of a new product, Ext GWT 1.0 (beta 1). The Ext JS version has been updated to 2.1 and includes new components, performance improvements, bug fixes and documentation enhancements. Ext GWT 1.0, is a Java library for building rich internet applications with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
Ext JS 2.1
Performance Improvements
Portions of Ext JS have been refactored to optimize performance including core functionality which will benefit the entire library. Many people will see significant performance gains when upgrading to 2.1 from 2.0.2. The typical Ext JS application will use much less memory, and many applications will see a memory usage improvement of over 300%! 2.1 is fully backwards compatible.
Slider
The slider component supports vertical and horizontal orientation, incremental snapping, tooltips, custom styling and a lot more. Check out the new slider example page.
StatusBar
The StatusBar can be rendered into any panel or window, providing a standard area for status text and icons indicating what’s happening in your application. The StatusBar supports automatic “busy” notification for indicating in-process activity, and can also be easily extended and customized as in the screenshot below. It also supports all standard Toolbar items. Try out the interactive example yourself (there’s also a great new example of customizing the StatusBar via a form validation plugin).
First-Class REST Support
Developers using a RESTful architecture will be excited to know that Ext JS now has full support for all HTTP verbs (no longer just POST and GET). We’ve also added support for passing in additional header information to ease integration with server-side platforms.
Examples and More Examples
We have added a much improved example explorer for Ext JS, in addition to a brand new one for Ext GWT, along with the site re-design. You can find several new Ext JS examples indicated by the red “New!” text appearing by the description. There are several notable new examples that you may have missed:
Grid Filtering: Filter your grid using specifically-typed filter controls that plug directly into the grid header. Special thanks goes to community member ambience for contributing his user extension so that it could be distributed directly with Ext JS.
Layout Browser: Includes examples for each standard Ext layout, several custom layouts and combination examples.
Custom Drag & Drop: Enabling drag and drop between a DataView and a grid using DragZone and DropZone extensions. Thanks goes to Nige “Animal” White for putting together this sample.
Consult the 2.1 release notes to get a complete listing of all changes.
Ext GWT 1.0
Ext GWT 1.0 is a Java library that enables developers to create web applications built in pure Java. You can leverage your existing Java skills to create full featured applications in Java using your favorite Java IDE and tools. Code, debug, refactor, and test your Ext GWT applications as you would any other Java application.
Ext GWT has a number of high performance, customizable widgets that provide a great foundation for building your applications. Let us worry about cross-browser issues, html and CSS. Ext GWT is more than just widgets. Ext GWT includes a convenient model abstraction allowing your domain object to be passed transparently between server and client side components. Building a complex application? Ext GWT includes a hierarchical MVC implementation with full history support.
Ext GWT is a native GWT solution using the latest GWT release and takes full advantage of GWT 1.5 and Java 1.5 features.
Ext GWT includes:
- High performance, customizable UI widgets
- Full theming support with standard CSS
- Well designed, consistent and fully documented source code
- Native GWT solution with no external JavaScript or 3rd party libraries
- Full remote procedure support using GWT RPC, JSON, and XML
- Support for Java 1.5 features, including generics, enums, and varargs
GPL License
Until version 2.1 Ext was released under it’s own license, the “Ext License”. That license granted usage (provided certain conditions were met ) under the LGPL license terms. The CSS and images (”Assets”) distributed with Ext before 2.1 had a license all of their own which was not open source compatible at all. We received quite a bit of negative feedback from some prominent members of the open source community about our license not being friendly for open source projects. Some even said Ext was not open source at all since these licenses did not offer the same freedoms that standard open source licenses offer. Since we have been an open source company since our inception, these comments and concerns struck home and we felt a need address the issue.
We are pleased to announce that all of Ext JS 2.1 is now available under the GPL v3. We anticipate this will allow broader usage in open source software and should make licensing questions and choices much easier. To help answer general questions people may have, we have added some useful pages to the extjs.com website: Licensing Overview and Dual Licensing Model.
Ext JS 3.0
We are also pleased to announce that an early rev of Ext 3.0 has hit the SVN trunk! This is pretty early code (release date expected towards end of ‘08) but here are some demos to give an idea of some of the things we have already added. We have big plans for Ext JS 3.0 and I think it is moving in the right direction!
ListView
A high performance tabular view based on the DataView class for when a GridView is overkill.
Button
New super-flexible button implementation.
Toolbar
New grouping in toolbars and enhanced button support.
Toolbar Overflow
Dynamic overflow of toolbars to a menu similar to expected behavior on Windows.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:01 am
Good news for oss… impressive first look @ 3.0…
Congratulations. I will miss LGPL
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 am
Nice progress, i think that there should be more development effort diverted into wrappers that will allow .NET developers to use this framework in a more common and intuitive way
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 am
Very impressive guys! I’m continually amazed at what you guys are doing.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:21 am
@ ran.davidovitz
Take a look at http://coolite.com/ . They are the official Ext JS partner developing the ASP.Net wrappers and design time controls.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:30 am
Great news! I already saw the great redesign of your site this morning, and the availability of the 2.1 release along with the new interesting demos, but no blog post! Now everything’s in order
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3.0’s looking good.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 am
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:54 am
holy *!!! you guys are crazy. extjs is the best thing i ran into through my developer life
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:55 am
Excellent update – truly impressive.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 am
Absolutely true, if all software developers offered the same speed, support and overall coolness of the ExtJS Team we developers would be one hell of a happy bunch!
Top work guys!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:42 am
Nice update, and version 3.0 looking good!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:50 am
Nice work, but I’m afraid that Ext GWT API’s are not in standard Java, where properties are accessed with get/set, but with public fields (not a nice choice)
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:59 am
kickass as always. thanks!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 4:06 am
Standard Java programming required property hiding, so for a Java developer seems a bit odd to see access like:
tree.itemImageStyle = “icon-music”
when standard GWT API uses
vp.setSpacing(10);
It’s a java standard, not a kickass.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 4:20 am
WAW!…can’t wait to check the new REST support!…
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 4:22 am
woa! can’t wait for the flexible buttons and grouping toolbar!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 am
… and the overflow toolbar is just perfect! yummy!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 5:21 am
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 6:19 am
Wow, ExtJS 3.0 looks great, I love the buttons and toolbars and … man! I’m using ExtJS since it was named YUI.Ext, and I must say you guys did a very good job in bringing ExtJS to a higher level, and it gets even higher in the future. Keep on rocking!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:32 am
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:53 am
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:58 am
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
You guys rule!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:08 am
This is overwhelming stuff. What more can one expect?
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:40 am
please stop…I don’t want to write java or .NET. Now the other guys will continue to write in that unsustainable rubbish and I’ll have to keep maintaining it…
if even developers are unwilling to change their script and learn something else how can they expect their users to want to change their script and use any new features they develop…?
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 am
The slider and status bar examples both error claiming they are not their respective constructors.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
OMG! I just love Ext, and I’m already excited about Ext 3.0!!! Ext is the developers’ dreams come true!!!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:11 am
@kairinsama – The slider and statusbar examples are working here. Try a hard refresh, you probably have a cached copy of ext-all.js
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
Congrats on the update and the new products! This framework continues to amaze me. I love the new redesign of the site and some of the new demos have helped me grasp the concepts behind those components.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Amazing. You guys are doing some amaaaaaaazing work. Keep it up!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
@Maso
Your standard sucks buddy. Sorry, I don’t mean to offend you. What are we developer? a kid that needs safety net around us?
In Python people do that all the time. Python motto: “We’re all grown up”. Use it wisely.
The model with generic get/set (internally it is a Map) offers you a rich way to add more properties to your model. What do you expect? A Bean with getter/setter? I’m tired writing stupid getter/setter and JavaDocs-ing them.
I know Eclipse has a plugin to auto generate, but it still sucks having getter/setter for every single property.
@Rich Kucera
Sir, I know you probably dislike Java (or C#). I’ve seen other JavaScript framework out there such as Prototype and the rest. They ain’t that great either in terms of coding. So you still have to deal with people writing stupid code in JavaScript anyway.
At least GWT provides things that you couldn’t get in native JavaScript. The JavaScript compiled by GWT is faster than your code. That is a pretty good trade-off for me.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
GPL 3.0? Well, now extjs cannot be distributed with a commercial app.
So now I need to stick to 2.0.x and gradually replace extjs with something commercial-friendly. And for integration with GWT I would still use GWT-EXT (www.gwt-ext.com), which is LGPL. Although I’m not sure if they can survive now.
Sad indeed.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Yes, changing the licensing policy to viral gpl causes cascading problems not only for users of ext library, but also for frameworks that built upon it and applications that use that frameworks. They are all must be turned gpl if going to use ext further.
I use ext and gwt-ext in my project and was very pleased with them. But, it seems that I am forced to search for pure-Java solution now. I doubt whether Sanjiv and gwt-ext community can get out of js-part in close perspective, it requires a lot of time and efforts. Otherwise they will have to stick with 2.0.2 release in order to keep library under lgpl. Both ways aren’t good for developers.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Jack and company,Please STOP CHANGING THE LICENSE. Back in YUI-EXT days the license was a Yahoo BSD Variant if my memory serves me correct. Then the change to LGPL and now GPL. Changing the license in a dot release just does not make sense.
What specific clause of the LGPL makes Ext (which is a library) not compatible with an Open Source project?
The change from LGPL to GPL is DRASTIC. The only reasonable explanation is the desire to cut off commercial use which is totally disingenuous.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
GPL? Now ExtJS is useless. GPL is a virus!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Good Luck on your route to self-destruction! Success kills and changing the rules in the middle of the game is one way to ensure that EXTJS is confined to the dustbin of history. Your inconsistent licensing policy is the beginning of the end, coders will always shop for a more flexible solution. Bye I’m out
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:51 pm
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
You provide resources under GPL license. This is a bit better. But the whole Ext is now under much more restrictive (GPL) license that it has been (LGPL).
Changing the license from LGPL to GPL is just ridiculous, especially saying that “this will allow broader usage in open source software”.
It will not. Never ever. OSS hate GPL.
As PowersUSA commented there’s only one point in applying more restrictive license: cut off commercial usage of Ext. And that’s only one concern as far as I can see.
What you are doing is just cutting off lots of devs from Ext.
Ideally, consider BSD, MIT, Apache etc license.
What you did has so big impact on software that was relying on LGPL license. Now they just cannot use Ext because of too restrictive GPL. They will stay with Ext 2.0 and eventually move from it.
Great deal guys. I wish I’m beeing wrong.
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 5:23 am
Ext JS 2.1 and Ext GWT 1.0 released, preview of Ext JS 3.0
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 5:40 am
I’m seriously depressed about the license change, I believe a lot’s of people will have to stay with the original LGPL version.
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 6:33 am
Will a version of Ext.ux.Multiselect be included in Ext js v3
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 am
@Aaron: It was indeed a cacheing issue. Much thanks.
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
We were just about to start a major project using EXTJS after evaluating a lot libraries. Our corporate customer stipulate that we do not use GPL’d products in our projects. Changing the license is a killer.
It is a big mistake!
We will have to chose another product.
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
GPL “killed” the project.
Now we can’t do our commercial app with ExtJS. We’ll search for another framework.
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Ext JS Licensing
With the release of Ext JS 2.1 a few days ago the license terms for non-commercial use changed from the LGPLv3 to GPLv3.
And everyone freaked out.
There are several discussions on the Ext Forums, the longest being 35 pages long (and growing). The disc…
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Um, guys, the commercial license is still available. As far as the open source license goes, at least give Jack credit for responding to Ext’s detractors and giving us a crystal clear, well established (and 100% open-source) license to work with. People obviously have their own opinion on what open source license is *better* or more *free* or *open*, but the bottom line is that the
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 11:03 pm
For some reason, Ext 3.0 just doesn’t strike me as dramatic of a change compared to the darastic changes in Ext 2.0. Ext 3.0 sounds more like an incremental change, as with the sliders, etc.
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 12:40 am
great! i like ext-js 3.0!
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 1:39 am
great!
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 1:46 am
My hearty Congrats and wishes to Ext team. Its great to see the improvements and a small view of Ext 3.0. I will call it a small view because, lets make it bigger. The framework is really the best one in the market and now its GPLed!
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 2:20 am
I’m now counting my blessings that I’m not too heavily invested in ExtJS… I think the unfortunate move from LGPL to GPL will see the Ext community shrink dramatically. Shame.
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 2:40 am
excellent work!! I’m use extjs in my project is very cool!!
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 9:47 am
@ted
I think that ExtJS is the best javascript framework today. My doubts are about ExtGWT. While GWT have strong compatibility with Java world, I think that projects that use GWT must have same compatibility.
E.g.
The get/set approach is much important in Java environment cause create a standard method for property access. Reflection system use this standard, data binding use this standard.
What happened if GWT implements DataBinding that requires this standard?
Ext GWT components will not be compliant?
I just look forward.
I wish I’m beeing wrong.
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I really don’t think ExtJS being distributed with GPL is a bad thing. If you guys are developing a commercial ExtJs-based product, then get a commercial license, that’s what it is meant for. If you’re not developing a commercial product then GPL should suit your needs.
Anyway, ExtJS 2.1 works very nice and the 3.0 preview is just amazing!!! Great work guys!
Posted on April 25th, 2008 at 12:42 am
I second what Daniel is saying. WAKE UP AND READ THE LICENSING. Buy a commercial license for a couple hundred bucks and STFU. I don’t think there is anything that pisses me off more than people complaining about something that is free.
Honestly when I read things like “GPL killed the project, we will have to search for another solution” I want to /format their brain and hope it works better. These people have to be the same ones that are using/developing Vista.
So what I have to say to you people that are too lazy to read the licensing options or are against GPL is “Right is your dang self” and let the rest of us developers push forward the best code ever written.
Thanks EXT team for producing an amazing product. For quick releases. For great support and for giving it all to us for free.
Posted on April 25th, 2008 at 2:40 am
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Posted on April 25th, 2008 at 10:01 am
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Posted on April 25th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I rather fancy the GPL/Commercial license model – fair enough. The commercial license is not expensive and enables you to do whatever you like with the result! Additionally I am more than happy to pay if this keeps the ext team going – and perhaps even securing their efforts
Posted on April 26th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
ExtJS is great but it lacks of RTL support.
It would be so nice if it’s considered in version 3!
Posted on April 27th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Ext Js is dual licensed, if you want to include Ext Js in a commercial project then buy a commercial license. Simple and fair.
Version 3.0 looks great, I especially like the ListView example. Thanks for all the work extjs team, I’m looking forward to the next release
Posted on April 28th, 2008 at 12:56 am
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 at 2:01 am
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
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Posted on April 29th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Nice work people.
Posted on April 29th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
“For some reason, Ext 3.0 just doesn’t strike me as dramatic of a change compared to the darastic changes in Ext 2.0. Ext 3.0 sounds more like an incremental change, as with the sliders, etc.”
Exactly what I was thinking. If I fork out the $ now for a developer license and 3.0 comes out in 6 months, since that’s a major step up in version, I’d probably have to buy another license? No thank you.
Maybe version 2.5?
Posted on April 29th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
6dust, this is just a very small subset of features that will be in 3.0. There is much more to come.
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 2:28 am
For all of you who complain about the recent license chance, I say stop! I’m not a fan of the GPL simply because it makes it tougher for me to make money with others’ work. But with EXT you have the option of a commercial license, and a damn cheap one at that. Rarely can one get as much value for their money as one can with EXT.
We need to keep in mind that we live in America, and Jack has the right to license his product as he chooses. People think open source means “communal ownership.” We speak of the open source community as though it belongs to all of us. Well, it doesn’t. It belongs to those who put forth the effort to make it happen, and those people have the right to license their works any way they choose.
Quit complaining and get to work writing cool applications.
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 7:34 am
once again, this project delivers an excellent project. But this GPL think really drives crazy small ISV companies that base their product on ExtJS. Maybe Google Web Toolkit with some nice CSS / Skins is a more suitable / viable option for such ISVs.
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
lost me and my company by moving to GPL, I regret wasting so much time on EXTJS
Posted on May 6th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Jack, I’m a little bit concerned about the release cycles for Ext JS and about the inconsistent license model.
In Summer 2007 you have released Ext 1.1, then at the end of January 2008 you released 2.0, now we already see snippets from 3.0? For a framework the release cycle is way too frequent. I’m still maintaining a project which uses yui-ext 0.33.
If a company who pays a license for a team of up to 25 developers for 5000 USD, they do long term projects and probably they dont have a release until you make 2 releases for the ExtJS framework.
I’m wondering if the ritch UI based on JS is actually the future or is it just a bubble and we will go back to the good old web interfaces with basic javascript.
Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Will there be support for more than one checkcolumn in a grid this time?
Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I am unable to use ext version of gwt (gxt-1.0) as the GWT compiler does not yet understand Java 5. Am I missing something? Please help.
Posted on May 10th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Great Work !
when will we be able to see the right-to-left support that was written by Yariv in the main version?
Posted on May 13th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Very nice indeed. I’d love to see built-in functions allowing content to be dragged into windows/frames from a list or other menu system.
Posted on May 14th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I have to say, the move to GPL is disappointing. No startup will be able to afford your commercial licensing scheme and they are by far your strongest supporters and promoters. We will have to move away from extjs as well and search for other options. I’m sorry, but IMHO GPL was a mistake.
Posted on May 16th, 2008 at 12:37 am
I’m not quite sure what the big deal is between moving from LGLP to GPL, seriously $289 is too expensive for a commercial license? If your building commercial apps buy a license. What company do you people work for in which that is excessive pricing? Ext is a company paying salaries too.
Posted on May 18th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
I’m blown away! (with every release)
Posted on May 21st, 2008 at 1:59 am
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Posted on May 26th, 2008 at 4:00 am
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Posted on June 5th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I fail to see what all the fuss is about regarding the licensing change. As some have commented, the dual license model allows those who are writing a commercial app to buy a commercial license and those who are not to use GPL. And, if the GPL license is really that much of a problem for a non-commercial, the commercial license is pretty reasonable (dare I say cheap) in the grand scheme of things. After all, I want the company to thrive (presumably, as does anyone else who’s using ExtJS). To do so, ExtJS has to make money somehow, and as far as that goes, I see nothing onerous with their commercial licensing or support pricing.
Posted on June 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am
I agree that moving over the license to GPLv3 was a big-time game killer. You claim that you are helping GPL projects, but I can’t really understand this, because it is a website framework. Websites are generally commercial. There are only a handful of “open-source” websites(wikipedia, open-source websites, etc), and who would want to see their source anyways? No one is going to start creating anything like facebook, or gmail in this framework now, because of licensing concerns. Off to tatami :>)
Posted on June 22nd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Great job man.thanks for all you did.
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Posted on July 8th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Boo-hoo… I can’t use the fruit of your labor and make money with it for free any longer.
You think Ext, LLC really cares if you jump ship? You weren’t making them any money to begin with. See ya.
It’d be great if they released their product for free and only charged for support, a la PHP or Rails, but these folks have made up their minds. Hopefully it pans out for them.
Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Jack
great job keep doing it.
Posted on July 29th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Thank you for GPL news and will wait for ExtJS3.0, All the best
Posted on August 13th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
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Posted on September 15th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Good job. will you be adding chart functionality same as YUI to Ext JS 3.0?
It would be great..
Keep up the good work.
Posted on September 15th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Another recommendation is about the Grid filters. It would be really helpful if we have filter options same as Excel. As you click on the header to show the distinct values from the grid as checkboxes.
Thanks..
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 3:55 am
This looks fantastic.
Will there be support for tri-state checkboxes, especially in trees/grids with checkboxes?
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
[...] bắt buộc các dự án muốn dùng phần mềm mã mở cũng phải là mã mở) sau khi công bố một bản nâng cấp nhỏ. Điều này đã làm dấy lên một làn sóng phản đối, công kích trong khắp cộng [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 10:54 pm
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Posted on November 15th, 2008 at 2:18 am
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Posted on November 19th, 2008 at 9:56 am
can we use the controls used in Extjs 3.0 in Extjs 2.2….
what about the compatibility b/n Extjs 3.0 and 2.2
if every year there is a new version of Extjs there will be a big problem in compatiblity….
in extjs 2.2 we cant use larger size buttons but in 3.o it is possible
it will be usefull if u can make a link b/n 2.2 and 3.0……………..
Posted on November 19th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Jack, we use Ext Js 2.x and we currently have the commercial licence. There are two major concerns that we have that may force us to quit Ext Js.
1) Accessiblity.
2) Modular builds (yes, there’s the buildit! app, but apparently the class dependencies are not quite worked out as well as they should be.
Will these two issues be addressed in 3.0?
Posted on December 7th, 2008 at 8:47 am
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
[...] Ext JS 2.1 and Ext GWT 1.0 Beta – Better performance, new Slider, StatusBar components. REST support (support for other HTTP methods beyond POST and GET). The Ext GWT 1.0 Beta consummates the love affair between GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and Ext that was started by gwt-ext and MyGWT, but provides the comfort of knowing that it is supported by the Ext JS folks. Note: Ext GWT is pure GWT, not an Ext JS wrapper. [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Hi, thanks for good work,
I have two questions:
1. Is there any news regarding the release date of Ext JS 3.0?
2. Will 3.0 open for new design elements, will it look different, or is it “only” new features included?
Posted on March 13th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
[...] one of the core developers for ExtJS join us by shared desktop hookup. Chris’s part of the upcoming ExtJS 3.0 release is the HttpWrite Proxy as well as the Direct api which allows for better communication from server [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Hi guys. Perfect work !!!! I’m using Ext JS since it’s first release.
Will be good to know is there any news regarding Ext JS 3.0 release ?
Posted on July 8th, 2009 at 11:23 am
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I find it so hard to come up with new ideas and rewritting someone else’s work can backfire. Particularly if you don’t know whether they are truly an expert in their field. The longer I work on the internet the more I wonder about most of the content. However, to be fair their are many aurthors in the print media out there that espouse their ideas as fact when they are clearly questionable. It is almost as easy to have a book published as an ebook.
Anyway, thanks for the great blog.
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Posted on July 16th, 2009 at 4:28 am
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Posted on July 21st, 2009 at 11:09 am
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Posted on October 16th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
[...] JS 2.1 now GPL :( Unfortunately Ext JS 2.1 (and Ext GWT 1.0) have been released under the GPL. This will make Ext more difficult to sell to corporate [...]
Posted on November 6th, 2009 at 11:09 am
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