On 05/05/2013 05:41 PM, Petr Kobalíček wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I like qooxdoo and I used it in the past, but I feel like saying also 
> some cons, instead of repeating pros again and again:)
>
> 1. Qooxdoo is too heavy. Even if you try to minimize as much as 
> possible the qooxdoo js is more than 1MB (I'm talking about standard 
> setup containing basic widgets, not application showing "Hello" 
> button). This makes qooxdoo impossible to use on classic web-pages.

We're working in that direction, in the sense of adding visual widgets 
to qx.Website.

>
> 2. Backward compatibility makes toolking even more heavy. Today's 
> browsers improved, there is no need for IE6/IE7 support, or support 
> for archaic browsers like Firefox 1.5, etc. Yes, maybe somebody 
> disagrees, but for me keeping this support is something like making a 
> desktop application for Windows 3.1. What I mean here is that today 
> many things can be done easier than they are done in qooxdoo. For 
> example the whole bom layer, batch rendering, etc, is an unnecessary 
> complication.

We are working on that :-).

T.


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