WEBIX JAVASCRIPT LIBRARY BLOG

This is a guest post from our friends DevelopIntelligence.com

Pity the poor table. Designed originally for the purpose of displaying row and column data, it has often had to serve double duty as a generalized layout tool, despite the many quirks that tables have for layout purpose and the fact that syntactically, a table is intended to contain data. Other solutions involved absolute positioning of display blocks, but these are often highly problematic in devices that can have windows of varying dimensions.

Being keen on data management and visualization, Webix always stays flexible and open for interaction with other frameworks, so your creativity will never be limited. The UI library can easily welcome your favourite maps, text editors and visual data-driven tools like Sigma, Raphael and D3 charts in addition to JS Chart widget.

When reading Webix documentation you cannot but notice the variety of terms like component, ui control, ui widget and complex widget used alongside with each other. You may easily wonder whether they are interchangeable and how to distinguish between them. In the article below, we’ll put them all to order.

Only good-looking and powerful tools for interacting with users can help developers conquer the modern web. Forms are true visitor cards of your application, as the positive experience during filling them adds a lot to user loyalty. Let’s find out how many carma points you can achieve by choosing Webix Javascript form.

Performance is a key feature of modern web applications. It is a mountain you have to climb to win your customer’s heart, but sometimes its top remains unreachable due to heavy tasks the application has to perform on the client side.

Take, for instance, Webix Pivot table JS widget. It does a hard job of calculating and aggregating data and may leave the UI unresponsive if the data is too big. Fortunately, from version 4.2 the widget comes supplied with an HTML5 Web Worker, which takes all the data processing into a separate thread.