1st Release is done !! 2/21/2003

We are happy to announce that our 1st (development) release is done. Including complete documentation. Please take your time to get familiar with x-desktop and use our forum for furhter communication.

We wish you a lot of fun. Enjoy developing !

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Release plan 2/14/2003

As promised here's our release plan:
  • Release 1: during next weekend (Feb. 21-23, 2003)
  • Development documentation: same timeframe
Release 1 will be a development release. We may not add new methods during this release and the code will not be optimized in regards to source code size. We are planning a "compressed" .js file as well as other optimizations (removing debug functions etc...) for the final release. There will be a method to check your current version online against the latest release. Once the development release will be available, we will actively monitor our forum in regards to building the x-desktop developers community.

The first sample application (English & German Version) 2/7/2003

Have a look at a this demo application in regards to financial company ratings, based on future Basel II requirements.

Applications & Demo 2/6/2003

We re-arranged our menu. We put credits/contact/register into one item "about us" and added the "apps & demo" as well as the "docs" items to allow further structured content. Please check out the funny demo with a life website desktop background !

Safari 2/6/2003

Due to some reports from our testing supporters using Safari we had to remove Safari from the list of supported browsers (sorry - the testing is currently not done by ourselves - we don't own any mac's, maybe Apple could spare some - if anybody has some contacts to them over here in Germany.... :-) ). As soon as time allows we'll dig into the Konqueror/Safari stuff. So far we believe it has to do with some "height: 100%" properties in different tags where some browsers still having problems.

To the community 2/5/2003

Bear with us in giving us time to respond to your queries. This is a

leisure-time-non-profit-based-on-opensource-enthusiasm-and-gratefulness

project. Although our motivation is at highly energized caused by this "x-desktop opening" we still need some sleep sometime ;-). You can do us a favour in using our forum for public or generic questions etc.., rather than mailing us direct.

Important note: In order to reduce future invalid links, please do not link directly to our preview demo, instead link to http://www.x-desktop.org itself. Thx.

Not in our wildest dreams.... 2/3/2003

.. did we expect the positive feedback so far. Yes, we will issue an release plan as soon as possible. Yes, we work on the documentation. Yes, we will soon link to an application, which demonstrates how and why x-desktop can be used to help building applications which are fun to use.

x-desktop.org has been launched 1/31/2003

Due to enormous effort of great people we were able to launch this website within one week. We are very pleased and hopefully you are as well. Special thanks to the whole team, especially Debbie for the design, David for all desktop and skin creations as well as Lars for keeping our back free to get this launch done.