Wink toolkit explained

Wink Toolkit
Developer:	Dojo Foundation
Latest Release Version:	1.4.4
Operating System:	Cross-platform
Programming Language:	JavaScript
Genre:	JavaScript toolkit (or library)
License:	BSD License
Website:	http://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.

See also

• Dojo Toolkit

External links

• Official wink toolkit site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mansuri . Aamir . 2015-03-10 . 15 Best Mobile App Development Frameworks of 2016 . 2023-11-10 . Perception System . en-US.
2. Web site: sarikazdubey . 2015-02-25 . 11 Best Mobile App Development Frameworks - FROMDEV . 2023-11-10 . en-US.