Wink toolkit
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| Wink Toolkit | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Dojo Foundation |
| Stable release | 1.4.4
/ July 30, 2013 |
| Repository |
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| Written in | JavaScript |
| Engine | |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | JavaScript toolkit (or library) |
| License | BSD License |
| Website | http://www.winktoolkit.org |
Wink, which stands for "Webapp Innovation Kit", is an open-source framework for building mobile web applications on devices such as the IPhone or Android (Android (operating system)). It is based on web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.[1]
The project started in early 2009 at Orange Labs (France Telecom R&D). Since June 17, 2010, Wink is a project of the Dojo foundation
Wink toolkit provides all the basic functionalities of a JavaScript framework: from DOM manipulation to asynchronous HTTP requests and also some mobile oriented features like touch and gestures events handling.[2]
Beyond that, wink toolkit offers advanced graphical components, like HTML 3D tag clouds and shapes or multitouch components.
Packages
[edit | edit source]Wink toolkit is divided into 8 packages
- core, which contains all the heart of the kit
- ui, for all the graphical components
- ux, interactions components
- mm, multimedia package
- net, for network related tasks
- api, to handle low level HTML5 features
- fx, for CSS transitions and transform (either 2D or 3D)
- math, a set of mathematic libraries
It also includes an "Easy caching" mechanism.