Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 Nitobi Adds Components and Enhancements to "Complete UI", its Enterprise Ajax Component Suite
Create a Better User Interface Experience with Nitobi Off-the-Shelf Ajax Components
Vancouver, BC - June 7, 2007 - Nitobi Inc. releases the second version of Complete UI, a suite of sophisticated Ajax user-interface components for enterprise web applications. Today"s release adds two new components: a Calendar for selecting dates within a web form, and Spotlight for creating guided tours of web applications. The release also enhances the existing components with standards mode compliance, better performance, layout, theming, and Java support. The new, nine-component Complete UI suite now includes: Grid, ComboBox, Calendar, Callout, Fisheye, Spotlight, Tabstrip, Tree and Nitobi"s Ajax Toolkit.
Complete UI is designed to help developers build great user experiences on the web. It solves web app usability challenges with easy user interactions powered by Ajax. In addition to delivering web apps with exceptional UI design, Nitobi"s off-the-shelf components save developers hundreds of hours of development time. Developers can add to or modify Nitobi"s components because the Complete UI suite works with Java, ASP.NET, PHP, Classic ASP, and Coldfusion.
"The idea behind Complete UI is to give developers an easy way to add slick, intuitive user interfaces to their web applications. Because usability is Nitobi"s focus, we"ve put a lot of thought, time and effort into ensuring our off-the-shelf components deliver great web experiences," said Nitobi co-founder Andre Charland. "Today"s release adds more Ajax-powered components to the web developer"s arsenal."
"With Nitobi"s help we created an "Excel on the web" feel to the application. It was great to finally have some advanced tools that use all that Ajax has to offer. Our first rollout was on Monday, and I am getting good feedback from users," said Christian van Eeden of international logistics firm Schenker.
Nitobi"s Complete UI suite now includes these nine Ajax components:
- Grid -- A cross-browser spreadsheet with Excel "copy/paste", LiveScrolling, and more.
- ComboBox -- A drop-down menu with autocomplete functionality, similar to Google Suggest.
- Calendar -- A high-performance calendar picker that can be used with Nitobi Grid or in standalone web applications.
- Callout -- A rich, skinnable tool-tip that prompts users with real-time feedback and helpful instructions as they navigate through an application.
- Fisheye -- A tool bar menu featuring fisheye magnification, similar to Apple OS X tool bar.
- Spotlight -- A tool for creating stylish guided tours of websites and applications.
- Tabstrip -- Folder tabs for navigation to different sections of a web application via Ajax or iFrame requests.
- Tree -- A hierarchical data view, similar to the folder view in Windows Explorer.
- Ajax Toolkit -- A library of fully documented tools used in Nitobi components that can be re-used in your own applications, or to build your own components.
The Complete UI suite is platform agnostic and works with a variety of development frameworks, including Java, PHP, ASP.Net, Classic ASP and Coldfusion. Pricing for Complete UI starts at US $429. For more information on Complete UI, visit www.nitobi.com. Download a 30-day free trial at www.nitobi.com/download/.
ABOUT NITOBI INC. Nitobi Inc. has been creating web-based software components and enterprise solutions for customers around the globe since 1997. Nitobi"s customers include Bank of America, Time Warner, KBR and NASA. Nitobi is an active member of the OpenAJAX Alliance and has recently completed a book on Ajax titled, "Enterprise Ajax" published by Prentice Hall PTR. << Browse all news releases |
