Introduction The Web and mobile development market are growing rapidly with more and more enterprises needing a strong presence on both platforms. This leads to a need for significant time and money investment creating applications which fulfil the needs of both platforms. Most vendors provide separate component set for touch devices does not alleviate the […]

Introduction In the upcoming ZK 6.5, we will introduce a new component called ‘Cardlayout’ enabling end-users to switch components like switching cards. On tablet, this navigation operation is supported by simply swiping through components. Check out the demo below to see how it works exactly! Live Demo Implementation Like HBox or Hlyout, developers can add […]

Introduction Previously in ZK, applications exceeding the boundaries of browser resolution relies on desktop browsers to automatically generates scroll bars by using CSS style overflow attribute so users can view the entire page but this feature unfortunately is not available on tablet or mobile browsers. In upcoming ZK 6.5 where responsive design and one codebase […]

Introduction Tablets are inherently different from desktops. Screen sizes and resolutions are smaller, finger-swiping replaces mouse-pointing and yes, sometimes, the tablet rotates. Web designers need to take these distinctions into consideration when designing web applications to make tablet surfing experience a bliss. The soon-to-be-released ZK 6.5 introduces new features that enable developers to design user […]

Introduction The upcoming ZK 6.5 focuses on incorporating responsive design principles to afford developers the ability to create web applications which have an excellent user experience on desktops and tablet devices without writing separate applications. Designing for tablets The experience of tablets is different to that of desktops. Not only are their screens smaller, the […]

In ZK 6 RC, we introduced various new features including ZK Bind, Generic enhancements, jQuery & CSS3 style server-side selectors, advanced templates etc. Thanks to the enthusiastic response and feedback from the community, as of the release of ZK 6 RC2, we are able to make some changes to suit and serve the needs of […]

This blog post is the third in a series which introduces more new features of ZK 6. For the main features please click here. In ZK 6.0, we introduce a new simple feature on Datebox and Timebox: with a javascript handler specified in zk.xml, you can provide text shortcuts on date and time input. Here […]

This blog post is the second in a series which introduces more new features of ZK 6. To check out main features please click here. One of the best user driven features in the upcoming release of ZK 6.0 RC is the navigation of the “Menubar” using the “KeyStroke” method making it more user friendly. […]

This blog post is the first of a series which introduces more new features of ZK 6. To check out main features please click here. ZK 6 has another brand new ZK component – “combobutton” which is effective in providing multi-function button enabling the developer to provide the user with one click actions as well […]

We are always being asked about our environment setup within the ZK office and how to setup a ZK environment. First of all this blog will cover the typical development environment of a ZK developer. It will not cover setting up an environment to develop ON ZK, at least not yet. So without further ado […]