xQuiD Core

xQuiD is a JavaScript framework focused on RIA development. xQuiD abstracts HTML complexities, making building complex user interfaces easier and enhancing RIA developers productivity.

xQuiD Core Features

xQuiD Core has several features designed to help in various aspects of the Rich Internet Applications (RIAs):

• Cross-browser DOM, CSS, events and AJAX management. Developers do not have to deal with the complexities of the different implementations of the DOM model of each browser, xQuiD cuts out all these differences.
• Extensible library of Widgets allowing to easily implement complex user interfaces.
• Job Scheduling System. You may schedule jobs and define dependencies between them inside your RIAs
• Cross-browser events management system. xQuiD defines its own event management system, allowing to connect methods to events, publish your own widget methods as events...
• Drag and drop features to easily implement data and widget drag and drop actions
• Effects to make your applications look fancy
• A REST client that facilitates integration with REST services, the current de facto client-server communication standard for RIAs

Browser compatibility

• Internet Explorer 7+
• Firefox 2+
• Safari 3+
• Opera 10+
• Google Chrome

Tools

To increase your productivity, a visual editor is available, distributed as a plug-in for the Eclipse platform, that turns Eclipse in a real WYSIWYG RIA development environment.