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Enyo 2.0 exits beta

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18 pointsunwiredben25 comments

We've also launched a redesign of the website (now live at http://enyojs.com/. Like Enyo 2.0, it's cross-platform, responsive, and definitely open for criticism.

If you have any suggestions on how we can make the website or the framework better, please let us know!

Nota Bene: Both the carousel on the homepage and the interactive tutorial on the about page are using Enyo 2.0. The total time spent on both elements was around 2 days. Once you get into the mindset, Enyo really is a pleasure to work with.

The site looks great Josh. The only comment I have is the graphic styles of the 3 images of the carousel are quite different from one another. The first image, with different types of devices and a transparent background works best methinks (also, on the free samples image, some of the text is distorted, which makes me a sad panda!)

Thanks! I'll definitely forward your advice to the designer who made those graphics. Hopefully if she has some time she can bring them into line!

Your eye for typography has also bested mine, the distortion didn't occur to me until you pointed it out. I think the idea was to draw attention to browser while maintaining the flow of the text, but I'll speak with her to see if she can magic up some alternatives. We sure wouldn't want to kill anybody's inner typographer!

Cheers Josh, hopefully she won't hate me for that feedback... Heh.

Will the stock apps for webOS be updated to use Enyo 2.0?

I would guess probably not for current webOS, maybe for webOS 3.0 since the community edition has been released.

They are more likely to use Enyo 2.0 on stock apps for Open webOS.

Will the hp touch pad get open web os 3?

I meant open webos 1 not 3

Looking forward to see what it can do! I worked for hp for over 10 years and the internal joke was that hp was the best software killer company ever! The initial release was flawed from the get go, but it will be interesting to see how well this version works. Optimistic!

Awesome to know it's out of beta. Hope there is more Onyx documentation available since the last time I tried to learn about it using the Sampler I was a bit confused with some controls and how to implement them.

I'm not directly part of the Enyo team, but I know that members have been working on an improved and unified Sampler app, to give a feel for using all of the components within an actual deployed app. Filling out the documentation is also definitely underway.

You should also check out the developer forums (http://forums.enyojs.com/). Experienced developers and the Enyo team both love to help out.

Great to see this product take shape...the progress made over the last few months has been impressive.

It seems the enyo team is taking a more holistic approach than many other js frameworks (which I guess could be a positive or negative)...things will really get interesting when the visual app builder is released.

The Sampler doesn't work on Chrome for Android. All clicks are detected roughly half the physical height of the screen above where the touch landed. Tested on a Galaxy Nexus.

Thanks for the report. Chrome for Android isn't a 1st tier target platform and we do have a number of known issues with it. If you want, you can head over to our Jira and file a bug with the version numbers of the relevant pieces. Of course, you're welcome to submit some pull requests, too!

Wow that Bing Maps example is scrolling smooth! Great work. My company currently evaluates mobile frameworks and I hope we can include Enyo in the list of candidates.

Tried several samples on browsers and seems none of them support back button. Am I missing anything? This is a must to have for desktop apps.

The page doesnt change while your viewing the samples, I believe this is a feature of enyo, more pages with less HTML, it is all based on JavaScript with HTML and CSS working in the background to render the buttons and other widgets.

We're looking at updating the Sampler with pushstate, or at least setting the hash to a sample ID to allow bookmarking of samples.

For reference, what are some of the best apps built in enyo? Is there a showcase somewhere?

We've been highlighting apps on our blog, see http://blog.enyojs.com/tagged/app-showcase

a great javascript framework. Well worth checking out if you haven't already done so.

Enyo is such an easy and amazing framework!

The Enyo team was hired by Google, right?

A number of the core developers of Enyo were hired by Google - the ones that had done a bulk of the public commits. But some remain and they're now hiring to fill those positions.

See http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/24/3042441/hp-enyo-google

This is great news. Enyo is a great framework for building apps on mobile and desktop. I created a Google Reader app using Enyo 2.0 and it is currently available on the Chrome Web Store. You can check it out here:

http://sanchezapps.com/touchfeeds

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