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 When applying a new look and feel for ZK components, developers need to go through various steps from designing new style component images, cropping those images following ZK theme rule to preparing several CSS files in order to create and apply a new theme. ZK Online Themer, also known as the ThemeRoller is an […]

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 […]

Introduction There already a lot of components in the ZK framework. In this blog post, I will introduce a new one that I　have created: Accordion, a horizontal accordion component that is based on liteAccordion, a jQuery plug-in. Accordion includes the following features: Supports any ZK components as children Supports all the native themes (basic, dark, […]

Introduction In upcoming ZK 6.5, we will introduce a new component ‘Dropupload’ which leverages HTML 5 technology, allowing users to upload by dragging files into the component whilst retaining original operating habits. In addition, compared to ZK’s traditional file uploading method, ‘Dropupload’ can get rid of the overhead of pooling server (in order to check […]

ZK Team is pleased to present to our users a preview version of a great, free, and API based ZK Add-on component – Openlayers, which integrates a powerful JavaScript Map library Openlayers. The current version supports; 13 different layers including Bing, Google, OSM, WMS 13 different controls including MousePositon, OverviewMap, PanZoom, PanZoomBar, Panel, SelectFeature etc. […]

Starting from ZK 6, all information, including selection, opened objects, sorting and multiple selection, are now maintained in the model rather than within the components (listbox, combobox, etc.) for providing better flexibility Which means that two components are now able to share a common model. However, in some use cases we may want two components […]

In some cases, for convenience, user wishes to freeze both columns and rows. To freeze specific columns, you can simply use ZK Frozen component to specify the number of columns you wish to freeze, however, Frozen component does not support row freeze. In this blog, I will show you how you can freeze not only […]

ZK Team is proud to announce the introduction of a new project ZK Touch to the community. ZK Touch is a brand new set of mobile components developed based on ZK 6 focusing on mobile web development designed for building mobile websites with ZK. Sneak Peek Video HTML5 & CSS3 Based Mobile Components Unlike desktop […]