Gaia Ajax Widgets Victory Version Released

Gaia Ajax Widgets Victory Version Released



Gaia Ajax Widgets is the Open Source Ajax library for ASP.NET and Mono. We proudly present our new Q4 "Victory" release, which includes 100s of improvements and some great new features.

ViewPorts: flexible, self managing layouts
Use Ajax ViewPorts to build flexible layouts fast. They are a lightweight control for defing regions and splitters, and are fantastic for building forms that fit any screen. See ViewPorts in action.

Aspects: Add new features to exisiting controls with
Ajax Aspects give you a powerful way of adding new features to your existing widgets. See them in use in our elegant drag n drop Ajax Shopping Cart. This uses the "draggable" and "resizable" Aspects, which can be used in combination to create sophisticated behaviours. Also see Aspects used in our Ajax chart too.

Behind the Scenes Updates
We're working behind the scenes to make Gaia faster and smarter. Our Ajax TreeView is now up to 100 times quicker making even larger TreeViews highly usable.

Appearences are important too. You will find the Ajax TextBox sample much more appealing.

More about Ajax Aspects: available in Gaia Ajax Widgets "Victory" Release;

• AspectClickable (any widget will trap server-side Click Event Handlers with X and Y coordinates)
• AspectDraggable (drag any Widget around and trap it's new position on the server when it is dropped in the browser)
• AspectDroppable (create a Widget which can handle the dropping of a Widget which is Draggable)
• AspectHoverable (trap OnMouseOver and OnMouseOut for any Widget in server-side Event Handlers)
• AspectKey (trap KeyPressed Events on any widget you choose)
• AspectMouseMove (trap MouseMove events for any widget of your choice)
• AspectResizable (make any widget resizable and trap it's new size in an Event Handler on the server)

Gaia Team at TechEd Barcelona 2007
Part of the Gaia Ajax Widgets team at TechEd this year. From left to right; Thomas Hansen, Bård Stranheim, Stian Solberg and Tobin Harris.



Appearences Count
We're now actively working to make Gaia look great.

Previously, we didn't focus on "looking good" because we wanted to get the fundamentals right, like server-side bindings against ASP.NET, Mono, stability and core speed.

Now that we have a complete stable core, it's now time to focus on the "eye-candy" and "bling".

We aim to give you something pretty. Certainly as pretty as the other JavaScript libraries out there, like ExtJS and Dojo. No doubt that creating the "Custom JavaScript free Ajax Library" has had it's costs. Now let's hope it's time to reap :)

Gaia at Mono Summit
Gaia Ajax Widgets had a stand at this years TechEd in Barcelona, in addition one of the core developers behind the library (Thomas Hansen) will be a speaker at this years Mono Summit in Madrid

Javascript knowledge is optional with Gaia
Gaia Ajax Widgets is an Open Source Ajax Library for ASP.NET and Mono and aims to completely abstract away the concept of Custom JavaScript. With Gaia Ajax Widgets you don't have to create Custom JavaScript yourself but can develop in your favorite .Net or Mono language on the server and everything just magically transforms to Ajax for your users.

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