Gaia Ajax Widgets Victory Version Released

Gaia Ajax Widgets, the Open Source Ajax library for ASP.NET and Mono, released a new version with lots of new features such the Ajax Viewport and Ajax Aspects which are demonstrated in the Ajax Shopping Cart sample and the Ajax Chart sample. Ajax Aspects is a kind of behavior that you can attach to any widget of choice and which changes the behavior of that widget. Examples of Aspects are AspectResizable which makes any widget resizable and AspectDraggable which makes any widget draggable. By combining e.g. AspectDraggable and AspectDroppable it is very easy to create an Ajaxified Shopping Cart. In addition there has been several enhancements to the library at the Ajax TreeView Control, which is now 100 times faster. This is especially noticable on very large TreeViews.

Gaia Ajax Widgets have always suffered from being the "less visually appealing" Ajax Library since the main focus was on making the server-side bindings against ASP.NET and Mono in addition to the internal core of the library. Now the core and the foundation is mostly 100% finished and very stable, time to focus on more "eye-candy" and "bling" to make the library visually appear as great and beautiful as other JS libraries like ExtJS and Dojo etc. No doubt that creating the "Custom JavaScript free Ajax Library" has had it's costs. Now let's hope it's time to reap.