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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, all the major internet or enterprise applications are developed or migrated to Rich Internet Application to support all the features that are provided in the desktop applications. This helps organizations keep the end users happy and also improves application deployment and maintenance. qooxdoo is a stable, open source RIA framework. If you are waiting and watching for the right time to migrate your application to qooxdoo, this is the right time!This book explains in detail about the rich user interface development in qooxdoo. It explains various concepts of qooxdoo framework in an easy to grasp and organized way, making it simple even for a novice in qooxdoo and also increases the competency level of the developer who is already working in qooxdoo.This book helps developers understand the qooxdoo framework, setup the environment, and start the development of RIA using qooxdoo. You will learn the core programming techniques in qooxdoo, user interface development in qooxdoo, testing & debugging qooxdoo applications, internationalization of qooxdoo applications to multiple languages, customizing the look and feel of qooxdoo applications using Themes, Performance management, etc.In the course of the book, we develop a complete application which will help the developer to understand the concepts better and to put things together to see the step-by-step progress to complete an application. By the end, this book will get the developer accustomed to the widgets and API available in the qooxdoo framework, and will enable him to design, develop, debug, and test the RIA in qooxdoo.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
qooxdoo
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References

Internationalization


i18n is a standard industry abbreviation for internationalization (because there are 18 letters between i and n). Similarly, localization can be abbreviated as l10n.

Internationalization is a process of adapting the applications or software to different languages and regions. In qooxdoo, internationalization is divided into two distinct areas, namely, localization and translation.

Localization is the process of displaying the date (whether 03/28/1999 or 28/03/1999), time (the 24-hour or the A.M. /P.M. clock), number formats (decimal separator), and so on. Based on the region, qooxdoo supports all languages and locales, where locale defines the language, country, currency, time, and any specific variant preferences. en, en_US, and en_UK are three different locales that are used in English-speaking countries and differ, based on the regions. All these three locales inherit from the en locale, and each locale defines the deviation from the en locale. qooxdoo supports...