Software:Wink toolkit

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Short description: Open-source framework for building mobile web applications


Wink Toolkit
Developer(s)Dojo Foundation
Stable release
1.4.4 / July 30, 2013 (2013-07-30)
Written inJavaScript
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeJavaScript toolkit (or library)
LicenseBSD License
Websitehttp://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

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.

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