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We are currently an alpha project.

Panda has been under active development for just over a year and a half. During this time, we have explored many architectural approaches in order to make sure this project can be the best that it can possibly be.

There is currently no stable version. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be actively committing to the 1.0 branch. In the mean time, we encourage you to explore our initial efforts as these will be the building block for our final releases.

Milestones for 1.0

The Core Library panda

Provides a basic set of tools for writing JavaScript applications. Includes:

• Namespace initialization
• Sharable module creation
• On-demand SCRIPT tag injection

Event Normalization panda.event

Provides a common API for cross-browser event management. Includes:

• Ability to add, remove, replace, and query events on HTML elements
• Simplified actions for canceling event propagation and default behaviors
• Automatic cleanup for memory leak prevention
• Support for creating user-defined events

DOM Manipulation Tools panda.dom

Provides a tool set for common DOM-related tasks such as creating, editing, locating and moving HTML elements within a document. Includes:

• API for creating HTML from JavaScript objects or from strings
• Support for missing DOM features such as insertAfter
• Support for finding DOM nodes by direct testing, attribute values, or CSS selectors

HTTP Utilities panda.http

Provides a simple set of utilities for HTTP-related operations. Includes:

• A normalized API for XHR instance creation
• Simplified HTTP request operations
• Support for generating and parsing query strings

JavaScript Language Enhancements panda.lang

Provides utility methods for enhancing core JavaScript language features. Includes:

• Simplified error handling
• Enhancements for basic JavaScript types such as Strings, Arrays and Objects

Copyright © 2009 MigiMedia, LLC

Panda JavaScript Components is free software and is released under the least restrictive license we know about: The New BSD License.